New Mexico Online Lottery

The New Mexico Lottery offers a relatively small games catalog consisting of jackpot draw games, daily drawings, and scratchers.

Its most prominent games include Powerball, Mega Millions, and New Mexico’s exclusive draw game, Roadrunner Cash. Players 18 and above can buy New Mexico Lottery tickets at licensed retailers like gas, grocery, and convenience stores.

Lawmakers established the New Mexico Lottery in 1995 to support college scholarships for student residents. Since its first ticket sales in 1996, the New Mexico Lottery has provided nearly 150,000 college scholarships.

New Mexico Online Lottery

It is no longer possible to buy New Mexico Lottery tickets online safely or legally.

Previously, the New Mexico Lottery Authority permitted online ticket sales indirectly through a Memorandum of Understanding with Jackpocket, a third-party app that purchases physical tickets on behalf of customers.

However, Jackpocket exited the New Mexico market in 2025 after the Office of the Attorney General issued an opinion stating that the app violated state gambling laws and constituted a breach of state-tribal gaming compacts.

The Jackpocket app launched in New Mexico in April 2022 after the New Mexico Lottery Authority consulted legal counsel and determined the service complies with all state and federal laws.

Jackpocket became New Mexico’s highest-selling lottery retailer within three months as monthly sales broached $410,000. That’s in comparison to the next two highest retailers, which had sales of around $70,000.

In early 2024, a local chapter of Stop Predatory Gambling mounted a pressure campaign to shut down the Jackpocket New Mexico app, but they have had no success to date.

As a New Mexico Lottery spokeswoman put it when asked about Jackpocket:

“It is not a New Mexico Lottery app. You may want to reach out to Jackpocket or Circle K to discuss. We in no way have anything to do with the app. All tickets are purchased in person, at a Circle K retailer in Albuquerque, which meets the requirement.”

One year later, the Attorney General’s office issued the opinion that resulted in Jackpocket ceasing its New Mexico operations.

The New Mexico Department of Justice issued the opinion in response to inquiries from the governor and numerous tribal leaders questioning if Jackpocket is legal and whether its operations constitute a violation of New Mexico’s Tribal-State Class III Gaming Compact.

Attorney General Raúl Torrez determined that Jackpocket and its Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the New Mexico Lottery Authority (NMLA) were problematic in four aspects:

  1. The Jackpocket app constitutes “internet gaming,” which triggers a clause in the tribal-state gaming compact requiring the state to reopen “good faith negotiations” with the tribe and consider amending the compact.
  2. Jackpocket’s services violate state laws prohibiting the practice of accepting fees for transmitting funds for gambling or pari-mutuel wagering on “any unknown or contingent future event or occurrence whatsoever”
  3. Jackpocket also violates state laws prohibiting the sale of lottery ticket without written authorization from the NMLA CEO
  4. The Jackpocket business model violates state laws prohibiting selling or reselling lotter tickets without a certificate of authority from the NMLA

New Mexico Lottery Games

The New Mexico Lottery offers fewer games than most state lotteries, but the options cover several mainstay categories:

  • Mega Jackpot Draw Games: Powerball, Mega Millions, and Lotto America
  • State-Operated Jackpot Game: Roadrunner Cash
  • Daily Drawings: Pick 3 and Pick 4
  • Scratchers: 40+ scratch cards ranging from $1 to $20
  • Fast Play: Instant win games with results printed on the ticket

New Mexico Lottery My Rewards Program

The New Mexico Lottery hosts frequent second chance drawings via My Rewards, where players can submit non-winning tickets for entries to win prizes ranging from free tickets to significant cash prizes.

For example, several recent NM Lottery second-chance drawings offered top prizes of up to $500,000 alongside smaller prizes, including free tickets, gift cards, and secondary cash prizes.

Although the name “My Rewards” implies this is a loyalty program, it does not track spending or issue points for purchases. My Rewards offers second-chance drawings only. Players can visit My Rewards here to sign up for free.

How to Claim New Mexico Lottery Prizes

The New Mexico Lottery has three prize tiers that determine how players may claim prizes:

  • Prizes up to $600: In-person at any New Mexico Lottery retailer or via mail (no claim form required)
  • Prizes of $601 to $99,999: In-person at the NM Lottery headquarters in Albuquerque or via mail with a completed claim form (see the mail claim address below)
  • Prizes of $100,000+: In-person at the Lottery headquarters

The New Mexico Lottery warns players that prize payments of $1,000,000 or more may be delayed by three weeks or more.

Mail Claim Address:

New Mexico Lottery
P.O. Box 93190
Albuquerque, NM 87199-3190

Contact the New Mexico State Lottery

Players can contact the New Mexico Lottery via e-mail, phone, and mail:

  • NM Lottery E-Mail Address: custservice@nmlottery.com
  • NM Lottery Phone Number: (505) 342-7600 (M-F 8 AM to 5 PM MST)

Mailing Address:

New Mexico Lottery
Communications Office
PO Box 93130
Albuquerque, NM 87199-3130

New Mexico Lottery FAQ

No. New Mexico does not permit online lottery sales.

Players must be 18 or older to buy NM Lottery tickets.

Players can request the Lotto Combo to order quick-pick tickets for four games into their next available drawings. Lotto Combo packages consist of the following:

  • Two Powerball tickets
  • Two Mega Millions tickets
  • One Lotto America ticket
  • 1 Roadrunner Cash ticket

100% of the New Mexico Lottery’s proceeds go to the Lottery Tuition Fund to fund college scholarships.

No. The New Mexico Lottery does not offer Cash4Life or Lucky for Life, and selling lottery tickets across state lines is illegal. Therefore, the only way to buy either game is to travel to a different state.

The New Mexico Lottery has an unusually short claim deadline of just 90 days for draw games and scratch cards:

  • Draw Games: 90 days from the date of the drawing
  • Scratchers: 90 days from the game’s announced end date