Oregon Lottery tries first raffle

Jan 25, 2009, 8:19 am (4 comments)

Oregon Lottery

PORTLAND, Ore. — For $10, the Oregon Lottery says the odds of becoming a millionaire will be better than than the average lottery ticket.

The lottery is offering its first raffle, with a guaranteed $1 million jackpot to be announced on March 17, St. Patrick's Day.  The drawing is scheduled for 8 p.m. Pacific Time.

Beginning Sunday, the lottery will sell 250,000 tickets for $10 each, making the odds of winning the jackpot 1-in-250,000 — a long shot but far better than Powerball, at 1 in 195 million, or Megabucks, at 1 in 6 million.

There will also be 10 guaranteed prizes of $20,000 each and 1,000 of $100 each.

Players will be able to find the complete list of winning numbers on Lottery Post's Oregon Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/or) after the 8 p.m. drawing.

Raffles are a staple of church and school fundraising. The Oregon Lottery is hoping it will attract new players, like other states that have incorporated raffles into their lottery games.

AP

Comments

diamondpalace's avatardiamondpalace

I love raffle ticket. For $10 ticket with better odd in begingin a millionaire is nice.

susie545's avatarsusie545

I agree with you

Tnplayer805's avatarTnplayer805

Not to be picky...  But the odds for winning a powerball million is  1 - 5,138,133 if you select powerplay.

justxploring's avatarjustxploring

$10 is more reasonable than the $20 cost for a Florida raffle ticket, although Florida offered bigger prizes.   Even $5 would make a raffle a lot of fun for everyone.   I'm sure there were a lot of people here who wanted to buy a raffle ticket, but $20 for one ticket was too much.

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