Tennessee Lottery: Tenn. Lottery raffle game makes 4 millionaires
Winning Tennessee Lottery tickets worth $1 million each were sold in Manchester, Nashville, Knoxville, and Old Hickory.
The winning tickets were announced Monday evening in the lottery's first-ever drawing of its new raffle-style game, Million $ Madness. Results are available now at:
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Four $1 million prizes were doled out, along with two winners of $50,000 each and 100 winners of $500 each.
Names of the winners will not be known until they come forward with the winning tickets.
The state sold 800,000 tickets for the Million $ Madness drawing, which translates to an estimated $3.2 million in proceeds for education in the state.
Lottery officials cut off ticket sales at 800,000, the prearranged cap, at 10:32 p.m. EDT Sunday. Tickets cost $10 apiece.
With 800,000 tickets sold, ticket holders had a 1 in 200,000 chance to win $1 million.
Previously, the lottery has had 12 winners of $1 million or more in instant tickets or Powerball. The most ever won in the Tennessee game was a $25.5 million Powerball jackpot in March 2005 by Bobbi Hubbard of South Pittsburg. Hubbard, an auto parts store owner, divided the winnings among family members.
Ticketsfor Million $ Madness went on sale in January. Winners have 180 days to claim their prizes.
The Tennessee Lottery began selling tickets in January 2004. Since then, sales have raised $842.6 million for education programs, including college scholarships and pre-kindergarten and after-school programs.
Tickets are sold at 5,000 retailers across the state. In 3 1/2 years, ticket sales have grossed more than $3 billion with over $1.7 billion in prizes awarded.