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LOTTERY officials are on the hunt for the $25,000 a year for life winner as the much-loved game is set to be replaced by a new version with 12 times better odds.
The life-changing prize pot will expire soon if the player doesn’t take action and come forward.
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The Lucky for Life ticket was sold before the November 4, 2025 draw at the North Ridgeville Convenient in North Ridgeville.
To win the game’s second-tier prize, players must match five out of five numbers.
This will earn them a staggering $25,000 for life or a lump sum of $390,000.
The winning numbers this time were 3-13-17-27-44, and the Lucky Ball was 12.
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The winner has 60 days to get their hand on the annual payment option or 180 days to grab all the cash.
It comes as a new game – the “Millionaire for Life” – is set to launch in several states in a matter of weeks.
Starting in 2026, the game is set to be facilitated by the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), which already manages the Powerball, Lotto America, and several other top contenders.
Millionaire for Life will be a combination of two current lottery games — Lucky for Life and Cash4Life, according to the Montana Lottery.
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Each gives Americans a chance at $1,000 every day for life, and winners of Lucky for Life can specifically choose $25,000 a year for life instead.
Rather than being another addition to this game-play style, Millionaire for Life will replace Cash4Life and Lucky for Life.
That way, Millionaire for Life can compete on the same level as Mega Millions, Powerball, and other top draw games.
The setup is also very similar, with players electing a set of five numbers from one pool and a singular sixth number from a second pool.
The only difference with Millionaire for Life is that the first pool of digits has 58 options to choose from and the second has just five.
With Powerball, there are 69 white ball numbers and 26 red Powerballs, and Mega Millions has 70 white ball numbers and 24 gold Mega Balls.
A grand prize of matching all six numbers in Millionaire for Life would award a player “an annuity prize of $1,000,000 a year for life.”
Matching just five from the first pool and none from the second would still pay players $100,000 a year for life as well, according to Montana Lottery documents obtained by NewsNation.
Several include $7,500, $500, $250, $50, $25, and two tiers of $8 prizes.
Odds of winning any of the prizes in the Millionaire for Life game are about one in 8.5, and the grand prize is one in 22,910,580.
That’s about 12 times better odds than the one in 292.2 million or one in 290.47 million odds for Powerball and Mega Millions grand prizes.
Additionally, multiple winners of the grand prize at the same time would split the annualized $1 million for life.
That means, for example, if 20 players landed the six correct numbers for the jackpot, they’d each get $50,000 a year for life.
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However, if there are multiple winners of the second-tier grand prize of $100,000 for life for matching five digits, each player gets the full amount.
This is regardless of how many winners there are, but if there are more than 20, a lump sum cash amount will go out to each instead of the annuitized $100,000 for life payments.
Remember to gamble responsibly
A responsible gambler is someone who:
For help with a gambling problem, call the National Gambling Helpline on 1-800-522-4700 or go to ncpgambling.org/chat
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