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Cheap Lottery Tickets: Where To Get Them?

Where to find the best cheap lottery tickets (online and offline)

If you’re looking for cheap lottery tickets, these are the best places to get them…

  • At your local store that sells official lottery tickets
  • At the official website of your local lottery (if available)
  • At 3rd-party online lottery sites

As you go through that list, the tickets tend to get more expensive.

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Buy cheap lottery tickets from your local store

You should be able to buy traditional paper lottery tickets like this at your local lottery retailer…

Close-up photo of physical EuroJackpot tickets.

For example, if you’re in the USA and want to play Mega Millions, you should be able to play the lottery at local retailers like 7-Eleven or Circle K.

Such stores are the main distribution channel for big lotteries and you’ll find the cheapest prices there.

Not sure where to find a lottery retailer near you?

Check the official website for the lottery you’d like to play and they’ll point you in the right direction.

Buy cheap tickets on official lottery websites (if available)

Screenshot of the Illinois Lottery website, showing the Powerball page.

Some lotteries allow you to play online via their official websites, though you usually have to be in the same state or country to do this.

Examples of lotteries you can play this way…

Some US states also allow you to play various lotteries online…

🌸 Connecticut
πŸ‘ Georgia
πŸ™οΈ Illinois
πŸ‡ Kentucky

πŸš— Michigan
🏞️ New Hampshire
🌲 North Carolina

πŸ”” Pennsylvania
πŸŒ„ Virginia
πŸ›οΈ Washington DC

Buy cheap tickets from 3rd-party lottery sites

Screenshot of theLotter homepage
Homepage of theLotter (reviewed here)

3rd-party sites like theLotter and Lotto Agent will buy lottery tickets on your behalf.

The advantage of such sites is that you can play your favorite lotteries from anywhere in the world.

The downside is that this is usually the most expensive way to play πŸ™

theLotter is one of the cheapest 3rd-party sites but even there you have to pay a 30-35% fee on top of the price of a ticket.

  • Important note: many 3rd-party lottery sites offer discounts when you buy more than one ticket, sign up for a subscription, or avail of other special offers.

Where to buy the cheapest lottery tickets?

Get the cheapest lottery tickets:

  • At a local store that sells official lottery tickets
  • At the official website of your local lottery (if available)

If neither of those are an option, try one of the following 3rd-party sites…

1.theLotter (review)
4.5/5
2.Jackpot.com (review)
4.3/5
3.Lotto.com (review)
4.3/5
4.Jackpocket (review)
4.2/5
5.LottoGo (review)
4.2/5
6.Lottoland (review)
3.9/5
7.Lotto Agent (review)
3.8/5
8.LottoSmile (review)
3.8/5
9.The Lottery Office (review)
3.7/5
10.Lottomart (review)
3.6/5
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