Arizona Lottery announces raffle with 'Early Bird' drawing
Early buyers also get free Powerball tickets
With Christmas and New Year's Day approaching, the state lotteries are once again preparing their latest holiday raffle promotions.
Thursday the Arizona Lottery announced their Holiday Edition of the Millionaire Raffle game that will award more than $3 million in total cash prizes, including one $1 million grand prize and a special Early Bird drawing on Nov. 19 worth $100,000.
Tickets for the Arizona Lottery's latest Millionaire Raffle go on ...
Oct 30, 2009, 7:29 am - - Lottery News forum
Arizona Lottery's Cash 4 game starts today
The Arizona Lottery's newest game has its first drawing this evening.
Cash 4 is traditional lotto-style game, with four numbers drawn from a pool of 26 numbers. Players win prizes by matching 2, 3, or all 4 of the numbers drawn on their game ticket.
Tickets for the new game can be purchased between 4 a.m. and 9:30 p.m. every day. Sales resume for the next drawing from 9:35 p.m. until midnight.
Cash 4 drawings are held every Monday through Saturday evening at approximately 10:25 p.m.
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Mar 31, 2009, 2:07 pm - - Lottery News forum
Arizona Lottery Sales Surge in October
The Arizona Lottery Wednesday reported a strong surge in October ticket sales compared to last year a strong sense that the organization's core consumers are maintaining their purchase behavior despite an economic slowdown impacting most Americans.
Sales were up 21 percent in September and 5.8 percent in October compared to those months last year.
Lottery sales are holding steady with continued year-over-year growth in its core Scratchers games and jackpot-motivated growth for games such a ...
Nov 14, 2008, 7:18 am - - Lottery News forum
Lottery practices sound, Ariz. officials say
Despite a Valley lawyer's filing class-action lawsuits against various state lotteries, including Colorado and Indiana, alleging deceptive practices regarding Scratchers tickets, the Arizona Lottery appears to be in the clear.
Although these lawsuits against state lotteries are popping up throughout the country one of the most recent was filed by a business professor in Virginia Arizona Lottery representatives say a suit against them would fail because they believe they have sound policie ...
Jul 23, 2008, 9:39 am - - Lottery News forum
Lottery scratch games still being sold after jackpots are gone
Feeling lucky today?
Then don't buy a $20 scratch-off ticket for the New Jersey Lottery's $1,000,000 Explosion game.
Your chances of winning the $1 million top prize are Z-E-R-O.
The six top prizes were awarded months ago, but the $20 tickets are still on sale. The best prize available today is $10,000.
State lotteries are coming under renewed criticism for selling scratch-off tickets after the top prizes have been given away. The latest challenge comes from a professor who says ...
Jun 30, 2008, 1:22 pm - - Lottery News forum
Arizona Lottery's Millionaire Raffle results
The Arizona Lottery's raffle-style game, Millionaire Raffle, was drawn last night, awarding two $1 million jackpots and more than 700 other cash prizes.
The winning numbers can be found here:
http://www.lotterypost.com/az-lottery-raffle-2008-06-11.asp
Millionaire Raffle is a raffle game offered by the Arizona Lottery, with a limited number of $20 tickets.
With only 250,000 tickets available for the raffle, Millionaire Raffle offers the best odds to win $1 million of any Arizona Lotte ...
Jun 12, 2008, 12:39 pm - - Lottery News forum
New Year's Eve lottery raffles from around the USA
In addition to celebrating the new year last night, lottery players from around the United States were checking their raffle tickets to see if they would start 2008 as a new millionaire.
Raffle-style lottery drawings were held in several states, including Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Virginia. (Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania drew their raffles a couple days ago.)
T ...
Jan 1, 2008, 10:25 am - - Lottery News forum
Couple wins $15 million lottery jackpot after redeeming $10,000 ticket
For a Nevada couple, good things come in twos. And that includes winning big Powerball jackpots in Arizona twice.
Just days after winning $10,000 with a ticket bought at a northern Arizona caf , Barry and Barbara Salzman traveled to Phoenix to collect their winnings and ended up buying another ticket from the Arizona Lottery office. It just happened to be the $15 million jackpot winner.
Of course I don't believe it, I just don't believe it happened, Barry Salzman said at a press confer ...
Feb 1, 2007, 12:39 am - - Lottery News forum
'Arizona 9' claims half of $94.1M Powerball lottery jackpot
Cheers and shouts filled the lobby of the Arizona Lottery Thursday morning as the terminal rang out We are in the Money, signaling the validation of the winning Powerball jackpot.
That's when we knew it was really real, said Tanya Poirier, one of the Arizona 9, a group of seven co-workers and two spouses who shared one-half of a $94.1 million Powerball jackpot for the Wednesday, Nov. 1, drawing. Their half of the jackpot came to $47,050,000.
Arizona Lottery Executive Director Art Mac ...
Nov 3, 2006, 8:12 am - - Lottery News forum
A million bad reasons to vote
Why the Arizona voter lottery is a terrible idea
By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
Arizona voters will face an embarrassment of electoral riches this fall, when as many as 19 proposed laws appear on the state ballot for their approval. Among the measures to be voted on are a 50 percent increase in state legislators' salaries, a constitutional amendment allowing bail to be denied to illegal aliens , and the designation of English as the state's official language.
But one Arizona initiative ha ...
Aug 2, 2006, 9:41 am - - Lottery News forum
