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How to buy Costa Rica lottery tickets online from the JPS, step by step

How to buy Lotería Nacional and Chances on the official JPS en Línea platform: what you need to sign up, how to pay and how prizes are deposited if you win.

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Lottery tickets from the Junta de Protección Social (JPS), Costa Rica's lottery board, can also be bought online, on the official JPS en Línea platform. If you win, the prize goes straight to your bank account. Here's how it works, step by step.

Where do you buy it?

Only on the official platform: jpsenlinea.go.cr or the JPS en Línea app. It sells the Lotería Nacional and Chances, including the Gordo Navideño. The JPS has warned about pages and social media profiles offering "digital lottery": don't buy anywhere else.

Step 1: create your account

Hands type on a laptop showing a registration form, next to an ID card and a bank card. — To sign up you need a Costa Rican ID (cédula) or DIMEX and a colón IBAN account.

You need a Costa Rican ID (cédula) or DIMEX (residency card): only those documents can be used to create the account, so a tourist passport isn't enough.
You'll be asked for your date of birth, the document's expiry date, an email, a phone number and a password.
Register a colón IBAN account in your name (it starts with "CR" and has 22 characters): that's where prizes are deposited.

Step 2: choose and pay

Choose the draw and look for the number you want, or ask for a random one.
Add it to the cart and choose how many fractions you want.
Pay with a debit or credit card enabled for online purchases.
Keep the purchase receipt sent to your email.

How do I get paid if I win?

A person checks a deposit notification on a phone on the porch of their house. — Online lottery prizes are deposited into the registered IBAN account.

You don't have to go anywhere: the prize is paid by transfer to the IBAN account you registered. That's why it's best to register it before buying. If you won and hadn't registered one, write to premiojpsenlinea@jps.go.cr or call 2522-2000. You have 60 calendar days to claim a prize: read how to claim a lottery prize.

Tips

Type the address jpsenlinea.go.cr yourself; don't open links sent in messages.
Check the results on our lottery results page and each game's draw days in which days and at what time the draws are held.
For the year-end draw, see Gordo Navideño 2026: date, price and prizes.

This article is for information only. Current purchase conditions are the ones the Junta de Protección Social sets on its platform.