Colorado Lottery raffle drawing is state's first

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butterflykt — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:06:51 GMT

Congratulations to the winners...I'm gonna be a winner also Tuesday night

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Todd — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 01:54:55 GMT

I think raffles are awesome, and I would always buy one or more if my state offered them. Not to say Powerball isn't also a great game, but they are different animals completely, and I don't think the comparison fits.

Raffles are a way to play for big money only. Powerball has the small prizes that frankly I'd rather have eliminated. Doing so would increase the other prizes more.

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ameriken — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 01:47:21 GMT

Odds of winning 1 million was 1/140,000. What a great game. I would like to see the state do this or something like it a lot more frequently. Even though it's a higher ticket price, I like the odds better than the regular lottery drawings and the chance of winning a decent sized prize is far better. Best game yet.

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LckyLary — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:30:04 GMT

Yes the best odds - once you buy a ticket for $20. You could have 1 in 1 odds to win $1M in PowerBall by buying all of the possible combinations of the first 5 numbers with PowerPlay at $2 each. Point being, which is better, $20 for the Raffle ticket or $20 in PowerBall or some other game where at least you can pick numbers? The interesting thing about these Raffle games is they are serialized; the time you get to the counter and ask for the ticket and they push the button on the terminal, deter... [ More ]

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sully16 — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:06:21 GMT

Congrats to the winners, 500 one thousand dollar winners, that is nice.

Colorado Lottery raffle drawing is state's first

Lottery Post — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:40:35 GMT

By Todd Northrop

The Colorado Lottery held its first-ever raffle drawing today, creating two millionaires and several more happy, lucky lottery winners.

The winning numbers for Colorado Millionaire Raffle can be found on Lottery Post's Colorado Lottery Results page.

Millionaire Raffle is a raffle-style game offered by the Colorado Lottery, with a limited number of $20 tickets.

With only 280,000 tickets sold for the raffle, Millionaire Raffle offers the best odds to win $1 million of... [ More ]