deborah mitchell: The deadline for entries is March 5, 2010. The drawing will take place on March 8 at a time to be determined. Winners will be notified as soon as possible following the verification process.

Jerry Howell: Multi-Match drawings moved from Wednesdays and Saturdays once Powerball launched in Maryland. The drawings now occur on Mondays and Thursdays. The final Saturday drawing was held on February 6th with the first Monday drawing occurring on February 8th. Therefore, if your ticket is dated for February 6th, those are the numbers you should check. Here is a link to the winning numbers for February: http://www.mdlottery.com/february10.html

Barbara: Numbers do sell out – especially triples and quads. The sales on a single Pick 3 or Pick4 number will be cut-off if the maximum prize pay-out of that number reaches $7 million.

karen: Sorry for the tough luck. The odds are identical for every drawing and each drawing is completely random.

Brenda Jackson: The geographic locations of our winners are random. There is no way to predict where the winners will be. However, research tells us that more winners come from areas of the State in which more people are playing. Please take a look at our press releases from 2009 at mdlottery.com. There you’ll see that we have winners from all over the State.

Prizes are distributed randomly throughout the total game and there is no pattern as to where they will occur. We do have parameters and guidelines that are set, depending on the price point, so that non-winning tickets do not exceed a certain number in succession. It is simply the luck of the draw as to which scratch-offs are sent to each retail locations.

Thanks again for your inquiry. We appreciate hearing from our players.

Joey: The system is designed to show winning units and each unit is the $.50 bet. Unfortunately, the system can only display that way, but there are in fact many $5,000 winners each day.