A new game and new names are coming to the Pennsylvania Lottery beginning today.
The new game is Pick 2, a twice-daily draw game that will allow players to choose any two-digit number.
The new names affect three longtime games. All will now bear the ‘‘Pick’’ name followed by the number of digits being chosen in the game — three, four or five.
The Daily Number, the lottery’s first daily draw game that began nearly 38 years ago, will now be known as Pick 3. Similarly, the Big 4, launched in 1980, will become Pick 4, and Quinto, which debuted in 2008, will become Pick 5.
All of the Pick games will be played exactly like the existing games and will be drawn twice daily. Old playslips for those games will continue to work. Players will find playslips with the new names and logos at retailers later this month.
Advance-play tickets purchased for The Daily Number, Big 4 and Quinto prior to today will be valid for play as Pick games.
‘‘The purpose is to energize our existing games for current players and to attract new ones,’’ said lottery spokeswoman Lauren Bottaro. ‘‘This allows for a more coordinated marketing strategy, because it’s all one family of games.’’
The lottery is marketing the Pick games with the line “Easy to play. Simple to say.”
Players will have a new second-chance opportunity from Feb. 2 to Feb. 26 when Take Your Pick! Second-Chance Drawings will be held. They will allow players of any Pick game to enter one of two drawings to win either a $50,000 top prize or one of 100 cash prizes of $1,000.
All Pick game tickets bearing an official entry code will be eligible for entry through the Second-Chance Prize Zone inside the VIP Players Club at palottery.com or via the Pennsylvania Lottery’s official smartphone app. Tickets must be entered before they are presented for prize validation and payment to be considered for the second-chance drawings.
The Daily Number, which debuted March 1, 1977, was the first Pennsylvania Lottery game where players picked their own numbers.
Big 4 joined it in the nightly drawing lineup on Nov. 22, 1980. Mid-day drawings for both games were added on Feb. 11, 2003. Quinto was launched on Aug. 26, 2008, with mid-day and evening drawings.
“We are excited to have a new family of games that we think will resonate with players really well,” Ms. Bottaro said.
First Published: January 26, 2015, 5:47 p.m.
Updated: January 27, 2015, 4:59 a.m.
