Massachusetts Lottery conducts $10M Raffle draw

Comment #12

LottoGuyBC — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:50:06 GMT

prolly comes back restructured to the benefits of Mass Lottery

Comment #11

mcginnin56 — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:14:47 GMT

After not selling half of their tickets, and factoring in commissions paid to lottery retailers (break-even or loss??), wonder if Mass Lottery will continue this raffle into 2013?

Hope they do, those were the best odd's I've ever seen; although I bought two tickets and won nothing.

Comment #10

Think — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:21:03 GMT

Gee I would have bought a ticket online if I could have. I don't understand why they didn't sell them out. Those top prizes are higher and the odds better than Michigan $20 scratchers (top prize money odds

Comment #9

Spincognito — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:31:32 GMT

I had two tix and did not win. But I absolutely loved the odds and as a player was happy they only sold half of the tix. 1 in 504 to win a grand or more is very favorable. (not that it helped me)

Agree that more lower level prizes would have appeal.

Comment #8

Stack47 — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:24:04 GMT

And that's probably why they only sold half the tickets. I guess it could have been worse; they could have lowered the prize fund or extended the drawing date. If the state lotteries don't start listening to the players, we're going to be reading more stories about lotteries not making their educational goals or wherever the profits go.

Comment #7

Genome — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:59:36 GMT

Well this was very disapointing. I was very excited and I didn't win any prize at all.

Comment #6

Genome — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:34:09 GMT

I bought a a total of 6 tickets(1 for my mom and another for a friend). I didnt check them yet, I am about to now. Hopefully I will be the 7 million winner or the 1 million winner (or both).

I also purchased 1 Rhode Island Lottery raffle ticket which I didnt win on.

Comment #5

rdgrnr — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:58:09 GMT

I agree.

Eight $1 Million Dollar winners would have been better than one $7 Million and one $1 Million in my opinion.

Comment #4

maringoman — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:27:07 GMT

I'm proud of myself that I kept away even though I was very tempted to and had money.

Better odds or not, $20 a pop is not something I intend to do, thats a lot of Corona Extras

Comment #3

TnTicketlosers — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:48:46 GMT

Come on Tennessee do a 5 Million dollar raffle,,,,,,,,,,,,All $5000 winners.I would jump all over that.

Comment #2

TnTicketlosers — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:46:40 GMT

These lottery raffles need to be spilt up more.give a lot more people chances to win.

Comment #1

zinniagirl — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:41:36 GMT

Although I don't participate in these types of drawings, this may have been the one to be in. Half the tickets not sold cuts down on the odds.

Massachusetts Lottery conducts $10M Raffle draw

Lottery Post — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:36:52 GMT

By Todd Northrop

The Massachusetts Lottery today conducted the state's second massive raffle drawing it's first in more than four years awarding a $7 million prize, a $1 million prize, and many more other cash prizes.

However good the prizes may be for lottery players, for the state the drawing is bittersweet, since nearly half of the 1 million tickets went unsold.

Lottery officials will hand out more than $10 million in prize money to 1,067 ticket holders even though the game generated... [ More ]