Minnesota Lottery draws winning numbers in raffle
By Todd Northrop
The Minnesota Lottery selected the winning numbers Sunday for its special New Year's Day Millionaire Raffle drawing.
The full set of winning numbers are available on Lottery Post's Minnesota Lottery Results page.
Millionaire Raffle is the sixth annual holiday raffle game from the Minnesota State Lottery.
Players purchased tickets for $10 each. Tickets went on sale Nov. 1, 2011 and were completely sold out before the drawing. The raffle has sold out in each of its fou ...
Jan 1, 2012, 11:52 pm - Lottery News forum
Connecticut Lottery draws $1M Super Draw raffle
By Todd Northrop
The Connecticut Lottery today held the state's third Super Draw raffle drawing, creating one new millionaire and several winners of other cash prizes.
A complete list of winning numbers for the drawing can be found at Lottery Post's Connecticut Lottery Results page.
The game has a total of 1,311 cash prizes, ranging from $100 to a top prize of $1 million cash.
Raffle tickets went on sale October 1, 2011, and cost $10 each. Each ticket sold contains a unique six-digit ...
Jan 1, 2012, 11:44 pm - Lottery News forum
Montana Lottery holds New Year's raffle drawing
By Todd Northrop
The Montana Lottery held its annual New Year's Day raffle drawing today, creating one new millionaire and several more winners of lower prizes.
The winning numbers for Montana's Millionaire Raffle can be found on Lottery Post's Montana Lottery Results page.
Millionaire Raffle is a raffle-style game offered by the Montana Lottery, with a limited number of $20 tickets.
With only 125,000 tickets sold for the raffle, Millionaire Raffle offers the best odds to win $1 mill ...
Jan 1, 2012, 2:27 pm - Lottery News forum
Virginia Lottery New Year's raffle creates 3 millionaires
By Todd Northrop
The Virginia Lottery's annual holiday raffle game, New Year's Millionaire Raffle, was drawn Sunday, and made three instant millionaires.
The winning numbers for all raffle prizes can be found on Lottery Post's Virginia Lottery Results page.
A total of 330,000 of the $20 tickets were available for purchase. According to the Virginia Lottery, all of the tickets were sold out prior to the drawing.
In addition to the three top jackpots of $1 million, other prizes include ...
Jan 1, 2012, 2:20 pm - Lottery News forum
Massachusetts Lottery conducts $10M Raffle draw
By Todd Northrop
The Massachusetts Lottery today conducted the state's second massive raffle drawing it's first in more than four years awarding a $7 million prize, a $1 million prize, and many more other cash prizes.
However good the prizes may be for lottery players, for the state the drawing is bittersweet, since nearly half of the 1 million tickets went unsold.
Lottery officials will hand out more than $10 million in prize money to 1,067 ticket holders even though the game generated ...
Jan 1, 2012, 12:36 pm - Lottery News forum
Spanish Christmas lottery pays out billions
Days before Christmas, a tiny town of 2,000 in cash-strapped Spain found itself richer by 720 million (US$940 million) Thursday after scooping the top prize in the nation's famed Christmas lottery.
Billed as the world's richest, the lottery dishes out some 2.52 billion (US$3.29 billion) to winners across the nation.
The top prize dubbed El Gordo (The Fat One) was split among the holders of tickets bearing the number 58268. The number appeared on 1,800 tickets, giving winners 400,000 for th ...
Dec 23, 2011, 12:27 pm - Lottery News forum
1 ticket sold in Connecticut wins $254.2M Powerball lottery jackpot
Powerball's biggest cash value in 5 years
Powerball's biggest jackpot in 18 months $254.2 million was up for grabs Wednesday night.
It was won by a single ticket sold in Connecticut that matched all the numbers drawn: 12, 14, 34, 39, and 46, with Powerball number 36. The Power Play number was 4.
The cash prize, about $150 million, was the biggest in five years.
Just missing, by failing to match only the Powerball, were tickets in a dozen states. One in Arkansas is worth $1 million fo ...
Nov 3, 2011, 9:47 am - Lottery News forum
Winning $32M Mega Millions lottery ticket sold in Massachusetts
One lucky Massachusetts resident is $32 million richer after Friday night's drawing of the Mega Millions jackpot, state lottery officials said.
They said a single ticket sold at a Tedeschi Food store on Neponset Avenue in Dorchester matched all five numbers plus the Mega Ball selected in the Friday, Aug. 19 Mega Millions drawing to win the multi-state game's $32 million jackpot.
The ticket bearing the winning numbers was 5, 15, 53, 54, and 56, with Mega Ball number 22, lottery officials sa ...
Aug 21, 2011, 8:27 pm - Lottery News forum
$228.9M Powerball lottery ticket sold in Minnesota
For a split second, John Nee of Apple Valley thought he might be the luckiest person in Minnesota.
On Thursday afternoon, Nee, 63, hadn't yet checked his Powerball ticket when he was told that a winning ticket worth $228.9 million, the biggest jackpot in state history, had been sold in Dakota County.
Alas, after hearing the numbers, Nee crumpled up his slip of paper and pined, Like every week. It's not me. But that's all right. It will come.
The identity of the big winner is still a my ...
Aug 12, 2011, 8:13 am - Lottery News forum
Ohio gas station sells $99M Mega Millions ticket
A lottery official says a winning ticket for the Mega Millions lottery jackpot worth $99 million has been sold at a gas station in northeastern Ohio.
Ohio Lottery spokeswoman Marie Kildane says the winning jackpot ticket for Friday's drawing was sold at Speedway in Jefferson, 10 miles from the Pennsylvania border. She says the jackpot has been accumulating since July 5.
Kildane says the winner can claim the prize beginning Monday because lottery offices are closed for the weekend.
The w ...
Aug 6, 2011, 10:07 pm - Lottery News forum
