A: Every one of our lottery wheels has a minimum win guarantee. A win guarantee includes 2 numbers, let's call them A and B. If the minimum win guarantee of the wheel is A/B, then you must get B winning numbers within the set of numbers you chose to wheel, and if you satisfy that condition, then you are guaranteed to get an A number win.

An example: For wheel 53226 and wheel 53235, both have a 3/5 guarantee. What that means is that if you have all 5 winning numbers within your 26 or 35 numbers wheeled (respectively), then you are guaranteed a 3 number win. It's possible that you might get up to a 5 number win if you match the guarantee for these wheels, but that is not part of the guarantee. If you only chose 3 or 4 of the winning numbers in your number set, then the condition of the minimum win guarantee won't be met, and you wouldn't be guaranteed a win (although a 3 or 4 number win would still be possible in this case).

To get a 3 number guarantee with only 3 numbers right, you'd have to use a 3/3 guarantee wheel (if 3 winning numbers trapped within your wheel, then guaranteed 3 number win).