N.J. Lottery to offer limited raffle-style New Year's drawing

Comment #7

justxploring — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:55:26 GMT

Yes, I also figured the FL Raffle has to be computerized. After all, they are picking 10 millionaires and 20 $100,000 winners and 100 $10,000 winners. I doubt if they will spend the time picking the winners one by one. Also, since the 6 digit number is being randomly chosen by the terminal and I'm assuming it's also silmutaneously entered into the drawing. How does the player know this is being done? I guess like the electronic voting machines, you just have to keep the faith that your info... [ More ]

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fbird — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:40:17 GMT

GEEZ...and I ripped on Michigan for such a lame rip-off ..I mean raffle.... nj is only 4 -1 mill prizes only 5 - 100,000 and only 500 - 1000...this is really a rip-off...michigan has 5 -million (annuity)..10 -100,000 and 750 - 1000...but i guess it is what it is...a raffle

Comment #5

LckyLary — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:31:08 GMT

Am glad they have this in nj.

I am assuming the drawing is computerized because how else would it be done? Being a SIX-DIGIT number (I guess 000001 thru 500000), it would be impossible to use a draw machine (you might if you had 5 digits and one of them was only 0 thru 4), and with 500,000 tickets it would be difficult to have a person pick it from some giant drum. The only practical way is a RNG and thus you wouldn't see much if they showed it to the public. I just hope they only use this RN... [ More ]

Comment #4

TheGameGrl — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:51:32 GMT

the rules are listed on the NJ website. Just click on the appropriate link to game rules for the drawing.

http://www.state.nj.us/lottery/games/1-9-1_million$_ny_rules.htm

Hopefully this is an okay link to paste on this page as its relevant to your concern.

Comment #3

Lotto Czar — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:23:59 GMT

Looks like lots of states are jumping on the bandwagon that Pa. started a year ago. I'm not a $20 raffle fan, despite it's charms, but do agree that if one is going to splurge $20 on lottery tickets at one time, scratch offs is the way to go, no matter what the denomination.

I do find it ironic, that when Pa. started it's original lottery in 1972, one of the things I heard quoted is that one of the intents of having a lottery in Pa. was to keep the money in the state, and not have people goi... [ More ]

Comment #2

TheMaker — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:16:48 GMT

Georgia is doing the same thing and the details are listed below

4 tickets will win $1 million each!

5 tickets will win $100,000 each!

500 tickets will win $1,000 each!

Odds of winning $1 million are 1 in 125,000

What is the Millionaire Raffle?

Millionaire Raffle is a new and exciting, limited-time game from the Georgia Lottery that creates four new Georgia millionaires in time for the New Year! With the best odds ever of winning $1 million from the Georgia Lott... [ More ]

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ochoop17 — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:09:51 GMT

The winning tickets will be drawn at N.J. Lottery Headquarters on Dec. 31 and not during the New Jersey Network's daily televised broadcast.

How will the winners be determine? who will do the drawing? And will anyone of the public see the drawing

N.J. Lottery to offer limited raffle-style New Year's drawing

Lottery Post — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 23:37:40 GMT

The New Jersey Lottery is offering a special New Year's drawing in which a limited amount of tickets will be sold for four $1 million prizes.

Tickets for the drawing, called Million Dollar New Year, go on sale Monday, lottery officials said in a statement.

Officials will sell 500,000 tickets costing $20 each, giving contestants a 1-in-125,000 chance of winning one of the four top prizes. Each ticket will have a unique nine digit number on it, and players cannot pick their own number.... [ More ]