Oregon Lottery tries first raffle

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justxploring — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:12:12 GMT

$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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Tnplayer805 — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:58:14 GMT

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

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susie545 — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:25:16 GMT

I agree with you

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diamondpalace — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:12:49 GMT

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

Oregon Lottery tries first raffle

Lottery Post — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:19:34 GMT

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 Megabuc... [ More ]