--- title: New Hampshire Lottery Releases Bacon-Scented Scratch Ticket description: It'll certainly gives new meaning to the phrase "bringing home the bacon" canonical: https://time.com/3675268/bacon-lottery-ticket/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-20T21:24:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:06.211Z og:title: New Hampshire Lottery Releases Bacon-Scented Scratch Ticket og:description: It'll certainly gives new meaning to the phrase "bringing home the bacon" og:url: https://time.com/3675268/bacon-lottery-ticket/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: New Hampshire Lottery Releases Bacon-Scented Scratch Ticket twitter:description: It'll certainly gives new meaning to the phrase "bringing home the bacon" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # New Hampshire Lottery Releases Bacon-Scented Scratch Ticket by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Jan 20, 2015 9:24 PM UTC by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Jan 20, 2015 9:24 PM UTC The New Hampshire state lottery is now offering a lottery ticket that smells like bacon. The new tickets, which are scratch-n-sniff and read “I Heart Bacon,” were released Jan. 5\. Winners can take home $1,000 and the odds of making at least a dollar are one in 4.12, [the website says](http://www.nhlottery.com/Scratch-Tickets/$1/I-Heart-Bacon). Plus, you know, it just smells delicious. To promote the new ticket, bacon trucks will [visit various locations](http://www.nhlottery.com/News/2015/Smell-of-Bacon-in-the-Air-New-Hampshire-Lottery-La) in the state, handing out free samples of applewood smoked bacon as well as offering lottery tickets. Last week, around 700,000 tickets were sold, [MarketWatch reports](http://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-hampshire-launches-bacon-smelling-lottery-ticket-2015-01-20), making the bacon lottery the best selling $1 ticket. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3675268/bacon-lottery-ticket/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3675268/bacon-lottery-ticket/"},"headline":"New Hampshire Lottery Releases Bacon-Scented Scratch Ticket","datePublished":"2015-01-20T21:24:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:06.211Z","description":"It'll certainly gives new meaning to the phrase \"bringing home the bacon\"","url":"https://time.com/3675268/bacon-lottery-ticket/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre","Bacon","Lottery","new hampshire"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3675268/bacon-lottery-ticket/","name":"New Hampshire Lottery Releases Bacon-Scented Scratch Ticket"}}]}] ```