The Montana Lottery no longer runs a keno draw game, but keno is still easy to find: the state has more than 1,400 licensed venues with video keno machines. Here is how it works and where to play.
Montana has no centralized lottery keno draw to publish. Keno here runs on standalone video machines in taverns and casinos, where each terminal draws its own game, so there is no single statewide result to track. This page covers how Montana video keno works and where to play it.
The Montana Lottery used to run a draw keno game called Ten Spot, launched in 2010, where you picked 10 numbers from 80 and the lottery drew 20 twice a day. That game ended on April 2, 2016, and the Lottery replaced it with Big Sky Bonus. The current Montana Lottery lineup is Powerball, Mega Millions, Lotto America, Montana Cash, Big Sky Bonus, Millionaire for Life, and scratch games. None of them is keno.
What Montana does have is one of the most widespread video gambling networks in the country, and video keno is a staple of it. So keno is easy to find in Montana, just not as a lottery draw game.
This is what makes Montana stand out. State law allows licensed video gambling machines, including video keno, at bars, taverns, and casinos throughout Montana. There are well over 1,400 licensed gambling locations in the state, and video keno is one of the most common machine games you will find alongside video poker and line games.
Lottery keno in states like Massachusetts or Ohio is a draw game with fixed prizes and a single statewide paytable. Montana video keno is a machine game: each terminal runs its own instant draw, and the paytable is set by the operator within state limits. The machines are faster and far more available, but state payout caps keep the top prizes well below what a lottery draw game pays.
To play video keno, visit any licensed gambling location: a tavern, a casino, or another venue with a bank of terminals. Sit at a machine, insert cash, choose keno, pick your spots from the 80-number board, set your wager, and start the draw. You must be 18 or older for licensed machine gambling in Montana.
For the current Montana Lottery game lineup, visit the Montana Lottery.
Montana has no neighboring state with a live KenoSpots feed yet, but you can watch live draws from other states and compare paytables here. KenoSpots carries live, auto-updating draw results for every state lottery keno game. Browse all live keno results → or play free keno here to learn the game first.
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