Most state lottery raffle games sold out

Personally I think Maryland is selling too many tickets for their raffle. They are a small state and probably would've been better off selling a maximum of 300K.

Todd i think the reason for slow sales is the people who do the advertising pulled the plug about two/ three months ago. Went out of buisness or something to that effect. in either event the lottery has air time on all maryland tv and radio shows. but i only catch the add for the raffle intermitantly.

Rdc137 maryland rakes in about a 1 1/2 million bucks every day on their other games. But the advertising for this game is sparce there are limited posters and no bill boards with the raffle posted anywhere i have seen. I think they had estimated 450,000 raffle tickets. I also think they expected to sell out by way of people telling other people.

Then on the other hand they also said they wouldn't pull the numbers for this game until all tickets were sold. Who knows Buddy can change his mind as he suits. So i'll hold my breath we'll just have to wait and see. 

The reason a Lottery offers an annuity is obvious. It's cheaper. They could have offered a $2M annuity on the $1M cash value top prize. I have mine for nj, and when in MD & PA I didn't buy because I only wanted one and the $500 prize doesn't need to go through a Claim Form. I don't know if in PA you win $1000 it becomes about $600 after taxes or something. I am not sure how they use their RNG to pick the numbers.. what happens if the RNG picks the same # twice, does someone win two prizes or does it block the #s it already picked? Would it do it by each digit, meaning that ticket #500000 - the last one in the sale - would be almost impossible to pick? I t only makes sense it picks a random number from 1 to 500000 for each winner. I remember NY had one of these last year or so, but they gave you like 10 numbers. "Drawing date subject to change." is printed on bottom of the ticket, meaning if they don't sell all of them the drawing would be postponed until all are sold.

i said the same thing about south carolina's raffle. SC is selling 1millions tickets.....WHY? If they'd followed in Ga's footsteps and sold them for $20 a tkt and sold half as many i think it would have sold better than it has thus far.....

How much are Indiana's raffle tickets and what are their prizes? Any LP members from there that wants a SC ticket for a Indiana ticket? PM me if so. Good Luck!

Yes four4me and Todd, Maryland has not had much publicity on the "Countdown to Millions" game.  They have a total of 420,000 tickets to sell and the sales have been slow.  I have bought several and each time was surprised at how low the number was.  The $20 price is a factor, although I see plenty of people spending more than $20 on pick three and pick four when I go to buy tix.

The MD lottery site says that tickets will be sold until 6 PM on New Year's Day, but no update on  the drawing date and time.  Since it was supposed to be tonight, I think they may extend the sales deadline.

I like the new game and wish everyone good luck and a Happy 2007! 

New Jersey raffle results are now online - http://www.lotterypost.com/nj-lottery-raffle-2006.asp

I picked up a ticket today which was numbered under 300,000.

Looks like Maryland has a ways to go.

Still haven't heard if the drawing will go off as planned.

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I thought the numbers were running backwards.

Kentucky's raffle game tickets go on sale tomorrow. The ticket price is $10 each. There will be two $1,000,000 prizes, two $50,000 prizes, thirty $10,000 prizes, and seven hundred $500 prizes. Only 500,000 tickets will be sold. I plan to buy one ticket first thing tomorrow. It's totally luck, but my luck will be as good as anybody's. I guess it's worth a shot.