BATON ROUGE- The Louisiana Lottery Corporation has announced that there will not be any Pick 3 or Pick 4 drawings on Christmas Day.

According to a release, no drawings for Louisiana-based games take place on Christmas Day or Easter Sunday.

Lottery offices will be closed Dec. 25 and 26, but will reopen Dec. 27 at 8 a.m.

Lottery officials said that tickets for the daily games Pick 3 and Pick 4 that are purchased after the draw close on Christmas Eve will be good for the next regularly scheduled drawing on Dec. 26.

Advance plays on Pick 3 and Pick 4 will not be available for Dec. 25. Officials also said that Dec. 25 will be skipped on any Pick 3 and Pick 4 multidraw ticket, which the number of draws remaining accurately reflected on that ticket.