Other Games
Besides Powerball, MUSL operates 2by2, Hot Lotto, and Wild Card 2. It coordinates with the consortium of 12 Mega Millions lotteries concerning their participation in Powerball as well as MUSL member lotteries in Mega Millions.
Since MUSL games are multi-jurisdictional, these games need unanimous approval before one is changed. For instance, game changes for Hot Lotto (15 members) and Wild Card 2 (four members) must be approved by all lotteries offering that game before the new format is implemented. A new version for Wild Card 2 will begin on January 13, 2013, while a revamped Hot Lotto starts on May 12, 2013. Both games are being redesigned to create larger cash jackpots (the existing Hot Lotto is annuitized with a cash option.) The new Hot Lotto game will advertise the jackpot amount as "taxes-paid" (after withholdings; net) instead of the usual American practice of "before withholdings" (gross.) These game changes are in hopes of increasing both games' membership.
MUSL has retired several games, including Ca$hola (video lottery), Daily Millions, Rolldown, and the Powerball scratchcard game; the latter was tied to a weekly television game show produced for two years in Hollywood, California called Powerball: The Game Show; then for two years from the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, called Powerball Instant Millionaire.
In September 2007, MUSL launched Midwest Millions, a scratch ticket game, in Iowa and Kansas; it was the country's first multi-jurisdictional scratch game since the Powerball television game shows. Midwest Millions returned in 2008 and 2009.
Ca$hola was retired on May 15, 2011 when its 37th jackpot was won. A replacement multi-jurisdictional video lottery game, MegaHits, began on July 15, 2011 in Delaware, Rhode Island, and West Virginia, the three lotteries which offered Ca$hola. MegaHits features five progressives; only the top progressive is shared by the three lotteries, while Ca$hola's top prize was its only progressive.
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