Maryland Lottery: Games, Results, Why There's No Online Play and the 8.75% Tax

The Maryland Lottery has run continuously since 1973 under what is now the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency — the same body that regulates the state's casinos and sports betting. For players its profile is defined by two things: an unusually deep bench of Maryland-only draw games (Bonus Match 5, Multi-Match, Racetrax), and the heaviest state tax bite on lottery winnings in America — 8.75% withheld from resident winners on top of federal tax.

Maryland Lottery draw games

Game	Price per play	Drawings
Powerball	$2 (Power Play +$1, Double Play +$1)	Mon, Wed, Sat · 10:59 pm ET
Mega Millions	$5 (multiplier included)	Tue, Fri · 11:00 pm ET
Cash4Life	$2	Daily · 9:00 pm ET
Multi-Match	$2	Mon, Thu
Bonus Match 5	$1	Nightly
Pick 3 / Pick 4 / Pick 5	from $0.50	Twice daily (midday and evening)
Keno	from $1	Every few minutes
Racetrax	from $1	Animated horse racing, every few minutes

Multi-Match is the home-state jackpot game with a clever mechanic: every $2 play gets one line you pick plus two Quick Pick lines, and prizes pay on each line and on matches across all three combined. Bonus Match 5 is the nightly 5-of-39 with a $50,000 top prize, and Racetrax — an animated horse-race numbers game — is a Maryland fixture with draws every few minutes that most states simply do not have.

Can you buy Maryland Lottery tickets online?

No. The Maryland Lottery does not sell draw-game tickets online, and Maryland is not among the states where the major courier apps operate — there is no Jackpocket-style workaround here. Buying at one of the state's licensed retailers is the route, full stop. The lottery's app checks tickets and shows results but cannot sell. If you are curious how the states that do allow online play handle it, our guide to buying lottery tickets online compares every legal model.

Maryland lottery results and winning numbers

Winning numbers for Maryland's own games — Pick 3, Pick 4, Pick 5, Bonus Match 5, Multi-Match, Keno, Racetrax — are published by the Maryland Lottery on mdlottery.com after every drawing, and that is the authoritative source; we deliberately do not republish daily-game numbers we cannot verify against a feed. For the multi-state games we keep complete archives of our own: every Powerball drawing with prize breakdowns, and every Mega Millions drawing likewise.

The steepest lottery tax in the country

Maryland withholds more from winners than any other state: on prizes above $5,000 the lottery takes 24% federal tax plus 8.75% Maryland state tax for residents (8% for non-residents) before paying out — and county-level income taxes can add more at filing time. On a $100,000 prize a Marylander sees roughly $67,000 after withholding (check any figure in our lottery tax calculator), several thousand less than the same win pays in Virginia (4%) and far less than in no-tax states. Where the money goes: lottery profits support Maryland's general fund, with dedicated contributions to the stadium authority that built Camden Yards.

How Maryland compares

Maryland is the strictest of the mid-Atlantic lotteries: no online sales and no couriers, while neighboring Virginia sells draw games online itself and New Jersey runs the registered-courier model. Add the nation's highest withholding and the practical advice writes itself: Marylanders near a border crossing buy their Powerball where the after-tax math is kinder. The full state-by-state picture is in our US lottery overview and our comparison of every legal way to buy Powerball tickets online.