Kentucky Lottery Lucky 7's raffle results
The Kentucky Lottery's latest raffle-style game, Lucky 7's, was drawn last night, awarding over a million dollars in prizes.
The winning numbers can be found here:
http://www.lotterypost.com/ky-lottery-raffle-2007-08-13.asp
Millionaire Raffle is a raffle game offered by the Kentucky Lottery, with a limited number of $5 tickets.
With only 500,000 tickets sold for the raffle, Millionaire Raffle offers the best odds to win $500,000 of any Kentucky Lottery game.
There is one drawing o ...
Aug 14, 2007, 8:32 am - - Lottery News forum
Small community anxiously waits for $1M lottery winner to claim prize
It is very likely that a Madison County, Illinois, resident is $1 million richer after purchasing a winning lottery ticket at Casey's General in Glen Carbon. However, the winner has yet to come forward to claim the massive prize.
We're really disappointed, said Store Manager Shirley Sutter about the unknown winner having yet to seek the award. We're anxious to see who it is.
Sutter explained that the Illinois Lottery held a summer promotion called Million Dollar Summer Raffle in which ...
Aug 6, 2007, 7:28 am - - Lottery News forum
Illinois Lottery Millionaire Raffle results
The Illinois Lottery's latest raffle-style game, Millionaire Raffle, was drawn last night, and will make four instant millionaires.
The winning numbers can be found here:
http://www.lotterypost.com/il-lottery-raffle-2007-07-31.asp
Millionaire Raffle is a raffle game offered by the Illinois Lottery, with a limited number of $20 tickets.
With only 500,000 tickets sold for the raffle, Millionaire Raffle offers the best odds to win $1 million of any Illinois Lottery game.
There is one ...
Aug 1, 2007, 8:06 am - - Lottery News forum
N.M. Lottery approves raffle, ends game, and hires new vendor
The New Mexico Lottery's board of directors was busy yesterday, approving a new raffle-style game for later this year, canceling the unique 4 this way 4-digit game, and ending an 11-year relationship with its current equipment and services vendor.
Finishing a two-year process to analyze its business needs, identify revenue growth opportunities and evaluate vendor capabilities, the New Mexico Lottery yesterday selected Intralot to provide a computerized gaming system, communications network ...
Jul 27, 2007, 8:22 pm - - Lottery News forum
Penn. woman wins $1M lottery raffle prize
Deb Redding joked with a man buying lottery tickets at the customer service counter at New Oxford Shurfine Market on Monday afternoon.
I think you might win, she said.
It wouldn't be a stretch. Since 2002, two people have now become big winners after buying lottery tickets at the store along Route 30.
Most recently, luck was with Hanover resident Brenda Gaydos. She won one of five $1 million top prizes from the Pennsylvania Lottery's July 7 Millionaire Raffle drawing, lottery official ...
Jul 24, 2007, 11:49 pm - - Lottery News forum
Texas Lottery may consider offering raffle
The chairman of the Texas Lottery Commission has asked the state attorney general to study whether it would be legal to add a raffle to its array of games.
Raffles offer better odds of winning than other kinds of games because a limited number of tickets are sold and there can be no duplicate winners. Twenty-seven states already offer raffles with mixed success.
Lottery spokesman Bobby Heith said the commission would still have to research the idea before starting a raffle game. But offici ...
Jul 24, 2007, 8:07 pm - - Lottery News forum
Lottery Winner's Lucky Day Turns into One Heck of a Mess
The lure of quick cash from someone else's winning lottery ticket now has three women facing some serious charges, after their alleged plan proved to be very unlucky.
Imagine you just found out you won $25,000 in the lottery. You get a receipt but in your haste, you actually leave the ticket at the store. And when you got back, it is gone. Well, that is just what happened to a 24-year-old Tina-Marie Ware from Rensselaer. She kept looking and looking and finally, needed the State Police to ...
Jul 18, 2007, 11:33 am - - Lottery News forum
Kentucky Lottery raffle drawing date set
The Kentucky Lottery raffle game named after the date it was to be drawn on is now set to take place about a month later.
Several state lotteries in the United States used the perceived lucky digits in the date 7/7/07 to hold special drawings and promotions on that day. The Kentucky Lottery promoted a special raffle drawing created for the date, calling the game Lucky 7's .
As the date approached, it became apparent that ticket sales for the raffle were not high enough to support the d ...
Jul 13, 2007, 10:17 pm - - Lottery News forum
Employees hit Florida Lottery raffle jackpot
A group of lucky workers from a distributor of electronic components will celebrate Independence Day much differently next year.
Sandra Pope-Guerriero of Pinellas Park, who works at Cross Components Inc. claimed a $1 million prize for herself and seven coworkers who pitched in to buy 16 Florida Lottery Firecracker tickets.
Pope-Guerriero bought the winning ticket at Rockwell's Pub Liquors on Starkey Road, one of two lottery retailers in the same shopping plaza that sold winning tickets.
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Jul 11, 2007, 2:45 pm - - Lottery News forum
Georgia couple wins $1 million lottery raffle prize
Jim Fain couldn't believe his eyes.
His wife, Tina Beckham-Fain, sat on the floor of their Milledgeville home reading the number on the first of five lottery tickets they bought for the Millionaire Raffle as he looked at the winning combination on the Georgia Lottery Web site.
Beckham-Fain read 285704.
Unsure of what he was seeing on his computer, Fain then asked her to read the screen.
She did and the numbers matched.
I started to hyperventilate, said Fain, a 42-year-old corpor ...
Jul 11, 2007, 1:53 pm - - Lottery News forum