Several CT Lotto Tickets Come 'So Close' To Historic Jackpot

ROCKY HILL, CT — Tuesday's night's Connecticut Lottery drawing featured 15 tickets that were "so close" to winning what has become a Top 10 alltime Lotto game jackpot, lottery officials said.

While there was no jackpot winner in the Lotto drawing, 15 tickets came very close with a five-of-six number match, CT Lottery officials said.

Each five-number match was worth $1,825. The Lotto jackpot is won by matching all six winning numbers drawn. The winning Lotto numbers for April 9 were 12-23-24-33-35-42.

In all, 9,969 winning tickets were sold for that date, with prizes ranging from $2 to $1,825.

On Friday, CT Lottery players will get another chance at winning a $14.45 million Lotto jackpot with an estimated cash value of $11.77 million. That is currently the eighth-largest jackpot in the game’s history. Connecticut's Lotto jackpot has been steadily increasing since January 2018.

Lotto drawings take place every Tuesday and Friday at 10:38 p.m. Wagering is closed at 10:20 p.m. and reopened at 10:46 p.m. The overall odds of winning a Lotto prize are 1 in 39.3. Odds of winning the jackpot are approximately 1 in 7,059,052.