N.C. Lottery Plans $1 Million Raffle

Comment #8

DoubleDown — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:31:18 GMT

In their short lottery history, the state of NC has had one Powerball jackpot ticket sold and numerous second place powerball winners , but for some reason can not capitalize on the publicity and launch a pick 4 and a pick 5 game to boost revenues.

How hard can it be to add the pick 4 since you already have the pick 3 ?

Best they can come up with is piggybacking on the raffle bandwagon ?

that dog won't hunt.

3 stooges is right...

Comment #7

LOTTOMIKE — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:45:03 GMT

the north carolina lottery is in dire need of a good leader.the three stooges vibe they give off and the constant mistakes they make surely don't help matters.when you can't even get a proper logo before you even start then thats a bad omen.

Comment #6

Kylottoplayer — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:46:26 GMT

Good luck, NC on your raffle ticket sales. We still have just over 139K waiting to be sold in KY for our Raffle ticket.

Comment #5

hysmith — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:57:40 GMT

I strongly agree with THAT. I did contact the NC Lottery concerning the P-4 game. The reply was that if that game were to be considered, it would be in the next fiscal year which begins in July '07. Hopefully our emails can put more pressure on to impliment the game within the next fiscal year.

Comment #4

Todd — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:04:14 GMT

I couldn't agree more.

Comment #3

Drivedabizness — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:22:35 GMT

No, not a great game at those odds IMO.

Maybe it will appeal to those who keep calling at a makable chance at $1 (or multiple $1 million prizes instead of one multi-million prize).

Was SC's game an instant ticket or an online game? I know they had a problem with ticket distribution on their first high-dollar instant game.

Comment #2

Pick3forSC — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:07:58 GMT

Dumb,Dumb idea!! If SC could'nt get all of their's sold at $10 apeice, albeit there were a million- vs- 500,000 in this one, I personally dont think dont NC will do much better. I know that I WONT be buying any of them. The 's up in Raleigh can do better than this! Additonal drawing's in P-3 the addition of P-4 would surely bring more revenue than this or so i think.

Comment #1

NCPicks — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:06:28 GMT

99.89 percent of the tickets will be losers.Not a great game in my opinion.NC would be better served by getting the Pick 4 game going.Then add a day/night option for all the ball games.

Shaheen continues to chase high publicity games while failing to really establish the lottery in NC.Pick 3,4,5 in a day/night format would be a far better choice than a one time raffle.

N.C. Lottery Plans $1 Million Raffle

Lottery Post — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:39:01 GMT

At $20, it'll be the most expensive ticket to go on sale in the short history of the state lottery. The odds are a whole lot better than Powerball, and the prize is a cool $1 million. A raffle a favorite fundraising tool of school parent groups and peewee sports teams could be coming to the North Carolina Education Lottery.

It's the kind of game that appeals to people, said lottery chief Tom Shaheen.

The state lottery commission will consider adding the raffle to its lineup at its me... [ More ]