Florida Raffle Ticket Sales Booming

Reply #8

justxploring — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:27:20 GMT

Interesting - I didn't realize they did that before. I always thought the money went back into the Jackpot. One time when the unclaimed ticket was for a $22 million jackpot (or something close to it) they voted to give the money to the schools. Most unclaimed tickets are for Fant 5 from what I can tell, although I'll bet many people don't claim the lower tier prizes for Lotto either.

I wrote this on another thread, but I've been watching the ads on TV for the raffle and they definitely are... [ More ]

Reply #7

justxploring — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:19:50 GMT

Following up ----

Announcement today:

HOLIDAY MILLIONAIRE RAFFLE TICKETS ALMOST GONE

-- Education in Florida to Receive $9.5 Million! --

Holiday MILLIONAIRE RAFFLE tickets could be sold out by the end of this week based on the current rate of sales. Players who want to be in on this exciting game should purchase their tickets as soon as possible. As of 1 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 28, approximately 956,000 Holiday MILLIONAIRE RAFFLE tickets had been purchased statewid... [ More ]

Reply #6

DoubleDown — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:42:17 GMT

I plan on purchasing at least one FL raffle ticket before they are all gone.

In addition, I already have one GA ticket ( it is in the 80,000 range numerically) and I will get another later this week. Hopefully, GA will be somewhere in the high 200,000 range when I get another. I just wanted to space them out a bit.

And.. to top it off, I plan on getting 2 of the SC raffle entries tomorrow when I go get my Powerball tickets. ( The SC raffle tickets are only $10.00 each..)

Good luck to ev... [ More ]

Reply #5

inittowin — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:11:36 GMT

I remember when the FL lottery would elevate the lotto jackpots during the month of December.

They would use the unclaimed money during the year to do it. Ticket sales went through the roof!

To me, that was a smart marketing idea! But of course they don't do that any more. I wonder what happens to the unclaimed money now

Reply #4

stavros — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:58:53 GMT

About 75% sold out as of today. Only 320,476 left out of 1.25 million. They sure are being scooped up fast! I've got 4 so far.

Reply #3

justxploring — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:19:18 GMT

I want to add that I just read the .pdf file on the rules of the raffle, which are interesting. It describes how they are selecting the prizes. As in any raffle, they'll be drawing the winning tickets in order. 130 tickets will be drawn in order. The first 10 will be awarded the million dollars prize, then 11-30 will win $100,000 each and 31-130 will win $10,000 each. However, after 180 days any top prizes not claimed will be paid to an alternate. That is, anyone who claimed the $100,000 prize... [ More ]

Reply #2

Surge — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 02:46:45 GMT

I wish I had gotten in on this when Ohio did it in September.

$1,000,000 prizes 4

$100,000 prizes 5

$1,000 prizes 500

Reply #1

justxploring — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 02:42:01 GMT

There are a couple of other threads on this raffle. I was about to purchase 1 or 2 tickets, but that's a lot to blow. Looking at the odds, I guess there is a much greater chance of winning the top prize than the 6/53 game, but look at all the people who buy Fantasy 5 tickets and never win the top prize. Those odds are 1:376,000. So why are the odds for the raffle so great? If you buy 20 Fantasy 5 tickets, then you've got a 20:376,000 chance of winning. The odds for the raffle are 1:125,000... [ More ]

Florida Raffle Ticket Sales Booming

floridian — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 02:36:29 GMT

They started on Monday and already almost 50% of the 1,250,000 have been sold as of about 4pm today. The tickets are $20.00 each. In my opinion a bargain considering the odds.

Good luck to everyone who has purchased one or several.

Floridian