Wisconsin All or Nothing: Zero Matches Can Win, Five Cannot

In most number games, finding no matches is the moment you stop checking. Wisconsin All or Nothing reverses that habit. Exactly zero matches can win the same advertised top amount as matching all eleven, while the middle of the match range pays nothing.

The word “exactly” does a great deal of work here. Three matches is a prize category. Four is not an improved version of that prize. You need to count every selected number before deciding where the play belongs.

Choose half the field

A basic play costs $2. Choose eleven different numbers from 1 through 22, or let the computer choose. The lottery draws eleven numbers, and order does not matter.

For an easy checking example, imagine selecting 1 through 11. If the draw contains only 12 through 22, none of your selected numbers appears. That is an exact zero-match result. If the draw contains 1 through 11, all eleven match.

These tidy sets are convenient for illustrating the rule, not better selections. The equally dramatic-looking outcomes do not make a consecutive set a shortcut. Any valid eleven-number set faces the same random drawing process.

Count the middle as carefully as the ends

The regular prize ladder has four paired levels. Zero or eleven matches pays $100,000, subject to the top-prize limit. One or ten pays $500. Two or nine pays $40. Three or eight pays $4. Four, five, six and seven matches do not win a regular prize.

Suppose you initially spot three selected numbers and stop. If a fourth match is farther down the result, the play is not a three-match winner. The category depends on the final total, not on the first three matches you noticed.

For zero, the same discipline matters. A number that appears anywhere in the official draw counts as a match, even if it is displayed in a different position from your ticket. There is no option to ignore an inconvenient match to preserve the zero category.

Why the two ends mirror each other

Because you select eleven of the twenty-two numbers, exactly eleven numbers remain outside your selection. The draw also contains eleven numbers. Matching none means the draw has selected that entire remaining set.

Matching all means it has selected your entire set instead. Each is one particular eleven-number drawing outcome. That explains why the official odds are the same for the two individual top categories: 1 in 705,432.

This symmetry also explains why “trying to lose” is not a separate strategy. A zero-match winner still requires a very specific result. You cannot make it easier by choosing numbers that feel unlikely; every valid selected set has a corresponding set of unselected numbers.

Read the top-prize limit across both categories

The $100,000 headline has a liability provision. If a drawing has more than twenty top-prize-winning plays in total, combining eleven-match and zero-match winners, $2 million is divided equally among those winning plays.

For example, fifteen eleven-match winning plays plus ten zero-match winning plays makes twenty-five top winners. The amount is then $2 million divided by twenty-five, or $80,000 per winning play.

The two ends do not receive separate twenty-winner allowances. Count them together. That distinction matters when reading a headline such as “zero matches wins $100,000,” because the standard amount remains subject to the combined limit.

Two daily sessions create two purchases

Wisconsin holds midday and evening drawings, approximately 1:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. Central time. Select which session or sessions you want, and read the issued ticket before leaving.

The rules allow up to seven consecutive midday drawings, seven evening drawings, or fourteen drawings covering both sessions. One $2 selection in both sessions for seven days costs $28. Covering only seven evening drawings costs $14.

Do not confuse the number of drawings with a promise that the ticket lasts that many days. A longer ticket repeats your selection in more drawings; it does not change what a zero, three or eleven match means in any one of them.

Finish checking before discarding anything

For each covered drawing, mark every selected number that appears in the official result, count the total once and then check the corresponding category. If the total is near a boundary, recount from the beginning rather than trying to remember which numbers you already marked.

Only one prize is payable per play for a drawing, using its qualifying category. Do not add the three-match amount to an eight-match result by treating the first three of those eight as a separate win.

Tickets cannot be cancelled or refunded under the published procedures, and the regular claim period is 180 days. Keep the original safe, use official validation and treat any temporary promotion as a separate offer with its own dates. The permanent lesson is simple: with this game, an empty match list deserves a careful second look.