Yes, as of September 1^st 2024 scratcher tickets are eligible. For lottery tickets that do not have a drawing date such as scratcher lottery tickets, you must write legibly on the ticket the date you are submitting the ticket.

No, you do not.

You can go to the Winners page and watch the videos of the Megasweeps Winners.
2nd Chance Lottery will never ask for you to send money in order to claim your prize. 

Any state or national lottery ticket that shows its drawing date has passed in the previous week. (e.g. Powerball, MegaMillions, Super Lotto Plus, Fantasy Five.) Starting September 1st 2024, Scratchers are allowed with handwritten upload date.
 

All $1,000 weekly prizes are guaranteed.  For the monthly Mega Sweeps, if the selected winner does not win the $50,000 MegaSweeps prize, he/she is guaranteed to receive a $1,000 cash prize. See the Official Rules for details.

You can upload as many tickets as you wish.

Because 2ndchancelottery.com's revenues are derived from ads served to its users.

No, 2ndchancelottery.com is a private business, is not associated with any State Lottery, and does not sell tickets.

Your privacy is important to us and your personal data will not be sold or shared with any outside parties. See our full privacy policy.

 Both Android and IOS apps are scheduled to be release in Q4 2024.

Upload the side of your eligible tickets that have your lottery numbers and your drawing date.
If you’re uploading a scratcher ticket upload the front side of the ticket your handwritten date.

 

No, you do not, but it is OK if you have already written your name on the ticket.  Each ticket you upload is automatically associated with your user account by the system.

Bonus entries can be earned by sharing www.2ndchancelottery.com with your friends on Facebook, X (Twitter) or via email, from the share icons on the top right of the website.

You will receive one (1) bonus entry for each share each day, i.e. up to 3 bonus entries each day by sharing.  You can also receive three (3) bonus entries for each new registration by your friends that resulted from your share.  You can also win bonus entries by playing the Spinzone® Instant Win Game.

Note that you must still have at least one eligible ticket upload credit to qualify to win. 

 

Winners are notified via email and typically within 3 days after each sweepstakes period has ended.  Once a winner has been verified, winner's image and first name will be published on the WINNERS page of the site.

2ndChanceLottery.com is a NO PURCHASE NECESSARY sweepstakes website and is not sponsored, endorsed or affiliated with any state lottery.  Registered users can upload unlimited number of their losing lottery tickets to the website for a chance to win weekly and monthly cash prizes.  
 

2ndchancelottery.com's business model is based on ad revenues which are generated when users watch ads before they can submit their lottery tickets and subscriptions.

Each uploaded ticket will be eligible to win maximum of 2 prizes in each calendar month: one weekly prize and one monthly MegaSweeps prize. There are 4 weekly periods and prizes in each calendar month.  The last weekly period in each month can be 7 to 10 days, depending on the month. 

At the end of each calendar month, all uploaded tickets from the previous month may be removed from the system.

During the inaugural months of July and August 2022, there was two bi-weekly $1,000 prizes.