Oklahoma Lottery holds drawing for 1st Anniversary Raffle
The Oklahoma Lottery Saturday held the drawing for its new raffle-style game, which, judging by the title, will happen once a year.
This limited-time-only game features a top prize of $250,000 and several smaller prizes, including two second-tier prizes of $50,000 and 300 third-tier prizes of $500.
The full list of prize-winning numbers is available at:
http://www.lotterypost.com/ok-lottery-raffle-2007.asp
Only 200,000 $5 tickets were available for purchase.
With every ticket pur ...
Jan 21, 2007, 6:27 pm - - Lottery News forum
Calif. Lottery hops on raffle bandwagon
With Million Dollar Raffle, California becomes the latest state lottery to introduce a raffle-style game.
The new game, which goes on sale February 5th, gives players the best odds of winning a million dollars of any game ever offered by the California Lottery.
Million Dollar Raffle is played like a typical raffle type draw game that many people have already experienced.
The game will have a maximum of 5 million unique (7 digit) raffle numbers available for sale to players for $5 per n ...
Jan 19, 2007, 8:52 am - - Lottery News forum
S.C. Lottery will probably offer raffle game again
The S.C. lottery will likely offer its million dollar raffle game again, said Ernie Passailaigue, executive director.
The lottery awarded four prizes of $1 million and hundreds of other prizes Monday in the game that works just like a door-prize drawing.
The Carolina Millionaire Raffle game sold just over 900,000 of its $10 tickets and paid about $5.5 million in prizes, Passailaigue said.
We did not sell out, so I wouldn't say it was a raving success, Passailaigue said. It was a succ ...
Jan 15, 2007, 4:09 pm - - Lottery News forum
First Penn. Lottery Raffle $1 million prize claimed
A Bucks County, Pennsylvania, man has become the first to claim a $1 million top prize from the Pennsylvania Lottery's Dec. 30, 2006, Millionaire Raffle drawing.
John Maier of Churchville presented his winning raffle ticket at Lottery headquarters in Middletown, Dauphin County. After examining the ticket and executing other propriety security measures, Lottery officials today confirmed that it was one of the five top-prize winning tickets from the Dec. 30 Millionaire Raffle drawing.
The fi ...
Jan 10, 2007, 12:27 pm - - Lottery News forum
S.C. Lottery Millionaire Raffle results drawn
The winning numbers have been selected in the South Carolina lottery game that is going to make four instant millionaires.
Carolina Millionaire Raffle is a raffle-style game with a limited number of $10 tickets. With only 1,000,000 tickets available for the raffle, Carolina Millionaire Raffle offers 1 in 250,000 chance of winning a $1 million prize.
The full list of winning numbers is posted online at Lottery Post:
http://www.lotterypost.com/sc-lottery-raffle-2007.asp
The drawing ...
Jan 9, 2007, 9:08 am - - Lottery News forum
New York Lottery making some changes
NY Lottery figures better late than never to catch 'raffle fever'
It looks like the New York Lottery's new year's resolution is to become more interesting.
To accomplish that they are adding one new game and two changes.
The first is a new limited scratchoff game called Raffle to Riches.
Under this new format the lottery will print only 1.5 million Raffle to Riches tickets. It ends on Feb. 8, or when they're sold out. Out of those 1.5 million $20 tickets, there will be 12 winne ...
Jan 4, 2007, 7:24 pm - - Lottery News forum
Michigan Lottery Millionaire Raffle numbers drawn
The Michigan Lottery has drawn the winning numbers for what could arguably be considered its hottest-selling game ever.
500,000 Millionaire Raffle tickets sold out in about one week by players hoping to win $1 million. The tickets went on sale Sunday, November 12, 2006 were quickly snatched up by Lottery players.
All winning numbers are posted at:
http://www.lotterypost.com/mi-lottery-raffle-2007.asp
Millionaire Raffle has five prizes of $1 million; 10 prizes of $100,000; and 750 pr ...
Jan 3, 2007, 10:48 pm - - Lottery News forum
Kentucky Lottery raffle tickets now on sale
Sales of Kentucky Lottery Corp.'s new game called Million Dollar Draw, for which only 500,000 tickers will be sold at $10 each, went on sale yesterday.
Once all of the tickets, which each contain a unique six-digit number, have been sold, the Kentucky Lottery will publicly announce the date and time of the drawing, according to lottery officials.
Players may not choose their own numbers.
A random number generator will select 734 winning numbers. Computerized drawings have been the su ...
Jan 2, 2007, 3:06 pm - - Lottery News forum
Maryland Lottery raffle game sells fewer tickets than hoped
Countdown to Millions, Maryland's raffle-like lottery, didn't sell as many tickets as lottery officials had hoped, and the drawing was delayed one day to sell more.
At $20 apiece, they were the most expensive tickets ever. The Maryland Lottery held its drawing Monday night for Countdown to Millions new game featuring the Maryland Lottery's best odds ever at winning $1 million.
The lottery sold about 325,000 tickets, short of the lottery's 420,000-ticket goal, said lottery spokeswoman Carol ...
Jan 2, 2007, 2:36 pm - - Lottery News forum
Mother of 4 among Florida Lottery raffle winners
The Florida Lottery raffled of 10 tickets worth $1 million Monday as part of their Holiday Millionaire Raffle.
Lottery computers picked 130 winning numbers from the 1.25 million tickets for $20 each sold in its first-ever raffle.
Twenty tickets are worth $100,000 and holders of the other 100 tickets can claim $10,000.
Michelle Strother, of Deltona, was one of the winners to claim the $1 million prize. The mother of four said she was elated when she heard the news.
People at wor ...
Jan 2, 2007, 12:38 am - - Lottery News forum
