Calif. Lottery hops on raffle bandwagon

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qutgnt — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:05:51 GMT

California is under the false impression that people are turned off by the 20 dollar price tag, but they almost are forcing you to buy 4 so you get 1 free. Another case of the old bait and switch. Until an El Gordo like 70% payback raffle hits the US forget it. Sure your odds in most of these raffles is 125k to 1 to win the grand prize but at 20 dollars a ticket its 2.5 million to every dollar. Almost lotto like.

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Todd — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:56:50 GMT

I agree, which is why I made a point of mentioing that fact in the news story. I haven't seen any other news story mention that fact, let's see if they pick up on it now.

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DoubleDown — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:35:18 GMT

I wouldn't play it- not enough lower tier prizes.

One of the reasons I played GA, SC and FL raffle was the large number of $1000 prizes.

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wizeguy — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:24:55 GMT

May the game sellout fast so that all 10 million dollar prizes are drawn. Good luck to all Lottery Post members who play

Calif. Lottery hops on raffle bandwagon

Lottery Post — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:52:07 GMT

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... [ More ]