Jan 26, 2015 2 min read

For nearly 38 years, Pennsylvania lottery players have played The Daily Number, but that will change Tuesday when the Pennsylvania Lottery will rename their daily games and add a new one.

Now called the PICK family of games, the new daily lottery number games will be played exactly like the existing ones and drawn twice daily.

The changes include:

• PICK 2, a new, twice-daily draw game, will allow players to choose any two-digit number.

• The Daily Number — the Pennsylvania Lottery’s first daily draw game — will become PICK 3.

• BIG 4, launched in 1980, will become PICK 4.

• Quinto, launched in 2008, will become PICK 5.

“The PICK games are ‘Easy to Say, Simple to Play’,” said Lottery Executive Director Sil Lutkewitte. “They will help to reinvigorate our draw games portfolio through a fresh, new look, a coordinated marketing strategy and new second-chance opportunities.”

To create a seamless change for regular players, advance-play tickets purchased for The Daily Number, BIG 4 and Quinto prior to Jan. 27 will be valid for play as PICK games. Although old playslips will continue to work, players will find new playslips at retailers in late January.

The Daily Number was launched on March 1, 1977, becoming the first Pennsylvania Lottery game where players picked their own numbers. BIG 4 joined the nightly drawing lineup on Nov. 22, 1980. Mid-day drawings for both games were added on Feb. 11, 2003.

Quinto, which allows players to pick five numbers, debuted on Aug. 26, 2008 with mid-day and evening drawings.