Bonus Offers - No bonus but lots of cool deals
The ND Lottery site has lots of interesting promotions that come in the place of a regular sign up offer. We saw lots of deals that gave you chance to win goodies like an Apple Watch Series Six or even an entire electronics entertainment package. You’ll always have to take part in special promotional games like Points for Drawings to win anything from these deals, but we think that they looked like they were great value for money.
Usability, Look & Feel - Online features & services
The North Dakota state lottery site offers a simple and easy way to get involved with all major draws available in the state, which really makes things quite convenient. Of course, the selection of available draws is somewhat limited due to circumstances described up to this point and you also won’t be able to find any scratchers or other games. These simply aren’t available in ND so you can’t expect to find them on the lottery site, either.
If you want to get involved with major draws, though, including Mega Millions, Powerball, Lucky for Life, and American Lotto, you’ll find the ND lottery site and their mobile app make everything as simple as you could possibly hope for.
Playing North Dakota Lottery Online
The first thing you’ll need to do to gain access to all the online options is register with the lottery site. You can do this using your desktop computer or by downloading the mobile app. The app is very modern and offers many functionalities, such as easily buying tickets using the Pick and Click system and scanning tickets to check ND lottery winning numbers for various draws. The Android app is not available in Google store and you’ll need to download it straight from the lottery site. Among other details required during registration, you’ll need to provide the last four digits of your Social Security Number.
Once registered, you can easily purchase tickets for all the draws described earlier in this article, namely Mega Millions, Lotto America, Powerball, Lucky for Life, and 2by2. Purchases are done using credit card and you can buy tickets for a single draw or for several draws in advance.
When it comes to winnings, all prizes below USD 600 are issued to your Player Club account and can be withdrawn from there. All prizes of USD 600 or more can only be claimed at the ND lottery offices located in Bismarck, ND.
Payments - Buy tickets at a licensed ND Lottery retailer
Remember that you can’t actually buy the lottery tickets at the North Dakota lottery site. Thankfully, you can do this with a payment method of your choosing at well over 400 ND Lottery outlets across the Peace Garden State. Hopefully the North Dakota Lottery site will put on some kind of online lottery ticket purchase platform soon.
Customer Service - Easy to get help at the ND Lottery site
We found that the North Dakota Lottery operates a friendly and professional customer support team. You can call them direct via the toll-free telephone number and there’s also an email support address. We’d have liked to have seen some kind of live chat service here, but we found that the FAQ had all of the basics to help us get started.
License & Security - Overview of the North Dakota Lottery
North Dakota Lottery: Playing Offline
In terms of lottery, North Dakota was really late to join the party. For the North Dakota lottery to be established, the state constitution had to be changed, which happened in 2002. This is when voters supported an important constitutional amendment, which finally made it possible for the state to start offering
lottery games.
However, the amendment only allowed the state to join multi-state lotteries, while preventing any in-state based games. Therefore, residents can only buy tickets for big draws while there are no smaller ND lotto games or scratch cards on offer. As mentioned,
almost half of lottery proceeds
are taken out of the prize fund.
North Dakota Lottery: Playing Online
The North Dakota state lottery site was initially launched in 2004 offering just some basic options. It was upgraded twice since, first in 2014 and then in 2018, when the new
Pick & Click
system was introduced. The system allowed players to purchase tickets for their all their favorite draws online, making things much easier and simpler.
The new site was set up in accordance with the
latest interpretation of the Wire Act, which deemed that lotteries didn’t fall under provisions of the Act. This gave states free rein in terms of how they wanted to handle the sales of lottery tickets within their own borders.
Additional Rewards - Special offers & drawings at the ND Lottery
In much the same vein, North Dakota
doesn’t feature any special yearly or occasional draws
or promotions for its players. There is nothing particular that ND residents have access to that isn’t also available to players from various other states.
Of course, players can participate in any special offers created by multi-state lotteries that North Dakota does sell tickets for. If and when this happens, players can buy tickets just like the rest and try their luck. However, the state itself doesn’t strive to offer any special drawings and we don’t see that changing at any point in the near future.
Overall Conclusion - How does the ND Lottery compare?
While there are always opportunities to make things better, there isn’t much we can hope for in ND in terms of changes to North Dakota lottery games offered online. Players have access to pretty much everything that’s available in land-based retail stores so there isn’t much that the lottery can do to improve the offering.
One thing that we might see in the future is more payment methods added to the mix, so that players can buy their tickets with even fewer complications. Adding PayPal, for example, would be something that customers from North Dakota would likely love to see as this is one of the preferred payment methods for US customers in general. Looking at all the changes that have already been implemented and constant work on improving the offering, this is definitely not a far-fetched proposition. Overall, the future looks good for the online segment of the lottery in the state.
