Lottery reviews
We review the lotteries' own online shops and apps, the only places I'd buy a ticket online, and we review them from what the lottery itself publishes. No ticket resellers and no couriers.
What we review
A lottery isn't a sportsbook. There's one in each state that has one, it sets its own prices and it isn't competing for your business with the lottery next door. So a lottery review here isn't a ranking. It's an honest look at what your own lottery offers online, or doesn't, and how well it's explained.
Each review sits inside its state guide. The guide answers whether that lottery sells tickets online, in its own words, and then I give my read of its app or online shop: what it offers, what it costs, how a prize is paid and what the pages leave unclear.
How we do it
The rule is short. Every fact comes from the state lottery's own site, quoted and linked to the page it's on, and every guide carries the date we read it. If a lottery's pages won't open for us, the guide says so and gives no verdict. I don't review what I can't read, and I don't borrow another site's summary to fill the gap.
The opinions are mine and labeled as mine. They're about what a player should look at: who may buy, how the money comes back, which features make it easy to spend more than you meant to. They're not legal opinions, and nothing here says what is or isn't legal where you live. The site's wider approach to reviews is on the review methodology page.
We don't name, review or recommend companies that offer to buy lottery tickets on your behalf. The lotteries themselves are wary of them, and the buying lottery tickets online page quotes what Powerball and Mega Millions say about middlemen.
The reviews so far
| State | Guide and review |
|---|---|
| Virginia | Virginia Lottery app and online play |
| Michigan | Michigan Lottery online and app |
| Florida | Florida Lottery app |
| Texas | Texas Lottery app |
All of them are also listed on the buy online page, with what each lottery's site said about online sales.
If your state isn't here, the US lotteries page links every lottery's official site. I'd read its online terms before its front page, because the front page sells and the terms say what you've agreed to.