Americans are just weeks away from 'early bird' lottery as state offers major prize ahead of end-of-year jackpot
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ONE lucky state is just weeks away from its second 'early bird' lotto drawing - having already made one big winner six-figures richer this week.
The next drawing has been set for December 16 and players in these other lucky states could be next.
The Montana Lottery held its "early bird" lottery drawing on Friday, November 25, KRTV reports.
A drawing for $100,000 saw one ticket holder - #080647 - in Laurel win the six figure sum.
The hefty prize was a part of the annual Montana Millionaire event.
And on December 16, another winner of $25,000 will be selected.
Three more grand prizes will be given away an undecided date between December 26, 2022 - January 1, 2023, according to KRTV.
Prizes include two $1million jackpots, and one for $100,000.
There were already 280,000 tickets sold for the lottery drawing beginning November 1, 2022.
And all tickets have now sold out.
In 2020, the Megan Thortenson of Butte, Montana was the winner of the $1million.
Montana is not the only state that offers alternative lottery winning options from the bigger prizes like Powerball and Mega Millions.
New Jersey's Lottery also offers the Collect 'N Win game.
Collect 'N Win allows lotto players the possibility to grab huge prizes from their non-winning lottery tickets.
First, join their VIP Club online by creating a username and password.
Next, either manually enter or scan your lottery ticket into their site or mobile app.
Each ticket scanned has a few of six different collectable symbols that fill in parts of a digital card.
When each digital card has all six necessary symbols, it is automatically entered into the monthly drawing. Only tickets purchased within the month of the drawing can be entered into the second chance, and game cards do not carry over.
Each drawing will give out one $5,000 grand prize, five $500 cash prizes, a hundred $20 instant cash vouchers, and fifty TangoCard digital gift cards.
Their site states: "All valid entries collected from the first day of the month to the last will be entered into that month's drawing.
"Entries collected after 11:59P ET on the last day of the month will be entered into the next month's drawing -- entries will not carry over from previous drawings.
"Please allow four (4) to six (6) weeks for prize fulfillment."
New York's Collect 'N Win works the same way.
Enter online through their site or app to win up to $5,000 in cash monthly.
