The DC-5 lottery game is offered by the DC Lottery and is played throughout the District of Columbia in the United States. It’s a pretty good game because it’s played twice a day, with drawings at noon and at night, and it’s customizable in that you can choose to pay 50 cents or a dollar. The in-game payouts of $1 are double the in-game payouts of 50 cents. However, this article will only look at the odds and payout information in the $1 game.

To play the DC-5 lottery game, you need to choose 5 digits, from 0 to 9. So, for example, you could choose the numbers 00000, 00001, 00002, up to the number 99999. From there, you could see that there are exactly 100,000 different numbers that you could choose. That would make the odds of matching all 5 numbers exactly 1 in 100,000. If you match all 5, you win the game’s top prize payout of $50,000.

There are many other ways to win money in the DC-5 lottery game. The following is a list of the rest of the probabilities for the smaller payouts:

• First 4 digits or last 4 digits in exact order win $5,000; the odds are 1 in 10,000, either way.
• First 3 digits or last 3 digits in exact order win $500; the odds are 1 in 1,000, either way.
• First 2 digits or last 2 digits in exact order win $50; the odds are 1 in 100, either way.

There are also five additional ways you can win money with various boxed numbers, with prize payouts for boxed numbers ranging from $425 to $10,000.

As you can see, there are many different ways to win in DC-5 and your chances of winning are pretty good too.