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Tune in to watch the results of all your favorite Louisiana Lottery games!
* WVUE-FOX8 airs the results at the top of the first commercial break of the hour.
10:00 pm* Tuesdays & Fridays
9:59 pm Mondays, Wednesdays & Saturdays
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Drawings are conducted at Lottery headquarters in downtown Baton Rouge using one of two secure, automated drawing machines. The machines are completely separate from the system that generates tickets, so the number of winners or where the winning tickets were sold is not known until after the drawing has occurred. To maximize security, access to the drawing room and equipment are reliant upon a dual key or password system from both a Lottery drawing official and a legislative auditor.
Prior to each drawing, a machine is randomly selected. The chosen drawing system utilizes several encryption algorithms to ensure randomness and security of the data, which is tested continuously. Finally, the system selects the winning numbers based on the game matrix parameters from the tested and secure raw data, displays them on the animated display console and writes them to a log file. The official results are then printed and signed off on by both the Lottery drawing official and the legislative auditor overseeing the drawing.
After drawings are conducted, the official winning numbers generated by the system are transmitted to Louisiana Public Broadcasting, WLPB, for satellite relay to all Official Lottery Draw Show TV Stations and are sent to state news media. The Lottery also posts the winning numbers on its website following the drawings each night after winning data is verified.
The drawing room is secured by alarms and motion detectors, and activity inside is videotaped. To maximize security, access to the drawing room and equipment are reliant upon a dual key or password system from both a Lottery drawing official and a legislative auditor. Each automated drawing machine is encased in locked cabinets . These tamper-proof, stand-alone computers are equipped only to perform random number generation. The devices pass independently verified and internationally benchmarked batteries of tests for producing random results.
Powerball, a multistate game, is conducted live at 9:59 p.m., Central Standard Time, on Wednesdays and Saturdays by the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) in Tallahassee, Fla. Mega Millions, a multistate game, is conducted live at 10 p.m., Central Standard Time, on Tuesdays and Fridays in Atlanta, GA.
Television stations across Louisiana broadcast winning numbers nightly beginning at 9:59 p.m. A winning numbers report for the most immediate and recent drawings can also be obtained from your Lottery retailer. On this website, you can check winning numbers as soon as 30 minutes following the drawing, but sometimes as late as midnight, depending on the number of drawings that occur that evening. You can also download the Louisiana Lottery mobile app, which lists the latest winning numbers, or call the Winning Numbers hotline at 225-297-2350.
Live drawings were discontinued for draw-style games in 1998, ahead of an industry trend toward automated drawings. There were several factors that contributed to the decision to convert to the automated drawing process now being used; producing live drawings is extremely cost-prohibitive; the Lottery does not pay television stations to carry the Lottery’s winning numbers broadcast; with up to six different drawings being conducted nightly, airing live drawings would require a significant increase in airtime from participating television stations who could otherwise sell the time to advertisers.
