Michigan Lottery starts two big new games

Comment #5

ICNUMBERS — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:31:33 GMT

Is it me or did anyone pay attention to where all the big winners are going.

Comment #4

Think — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:22:51 GMT

There was an article in a Detroit paper yesterday. The Mich Commish was complaining about what the Economy was doing to lottery sales and said that the bright spot was Keno. Getting back to the point, he also mentioned the new $10 scratcher.

As far as the raffle goes the disappointing thing about this one is they decided to lower the number of big prizes. There used to be 25 $100,000 prizes and now there are only 20. With few enough big prizes out there already, now there are even fewer.... [ More ]

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fbird — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:23:59 GMT

by the way brad...that $2 mill prize is annuitized !!!!!!!!!! but you can take a cash payout of 1.3.............

Comment #2

Bradly_60 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:56:51 GMT

I wonder if the instant game is going to be just like the $40,000,000 spectacular they just sold the last top prize on. That game had 10 $1m prizes. One thing I don't like is that any prize $1M or higher is usually annuitized.

Brad

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Todd — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:52:20 GMT

October 6th will be a busy day for raffles, as the Arizona Lottery is holding its next raffle drawing on the same date.

You can see both raffle announcements on the Event Calendar: www.lotterypost.com/calendar.aspx?d=10/6/2008

Please feel free to send me any other upcoming events for inclusion on the Event Calendar.

Typical entries include new games, special drawings, and other major happenings with the lottery.

Here is the submission form for suggested Event Calendar entries: www.l... [ More ]

Michigan Lottery starts two big new games

Lottery Post — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:35:17 GMT

After starting its latest raffle game last week with a $2 million top prize the Michigan Lottery will introduce a new instant win game next week awarding eleven ticket holders $1 million each.

The $10 tickets for the Million Dollar Madness go on sale on Aug. 29.

The Lottery Commission announced Wednesday it will print 4.5 million tickets for the new game, with one million of the tickets offering prize awards ranging from $10 to $1 million.

The lottery's latest raffle game is only... [ More ]