2nd Chance Drawings: Does anyone know...

Reply #5

Rick G — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:20:40 GMT

Coin Toss,

I just went to the wesite for the address to send the entries. Right above the address is this statement:

To enter, players can send $30 in non-winning instant tickets from the Million Dollar Summer ticket suite and or online tickets with the contestant s name, address and phone number on the back of each non-winning entry ticket to:

Illinois Lottery Million Dollar Summer Promotion

PO Box 19086

Springfield, IL 6... [ More ]

Reply #4

Coin Toss — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:15:21 GMT

The phone number is still a pain but the labels are a relif!

(It's like this folks:

Phone

Reply #3

Rick G — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:17:54 GMT

Thanks for that info C-T. I'm going back to using preprinted labels then. What a relief for my arthritic hands

Reply #2

Coin Toss — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:44:21 GMT

Rick G

From Illinois Lottery site:

A. Entry by Mail or In Person

To enter by mail, players must submit a minimum of $30 worth of non-winning Illinois Lottery Million Dollar Summer instant tickets (Game # s 517, Go-Fer the Green; 518, Summer Splash; 519, Pot O Gold; 520, The Price is Right ; 521, Hot Spot Summer; 522, $75 Million Mania) and all on-line game tickets (Lotto, Little Lotto, Mega Millions, Pick 4, Pick 3, Pick n Play, summer Millionaire Raffle) dated from April

Reply #1

Rick G — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:04:22 GMT

Coin Toss,

Each envelope containing $30 of losing tickets is one entry. It doesn't matter the denomination of the losing tickets. It only matters to the player who has to fill out the back of each ticket...and that they MUST do...by hand...no return address labels, etc.

In IL for the last three years they have included all online tickets and select scratchers. The scratchers must say they are eligible for the second chance drawing...many of them are not eligible.

I believe that the... [ More ]

2nd Chance Drawings: Does anyone know...

Coin Toss — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:36:30 GMT

When Illinois has 2nd chance drawings it's at least $30 in losing tickets for an entry.

Just for curiosity, does anyone know if someone who sends in 3 $10 scratchers, for example, would not have as many entries as someone who sent in 30 $1 tickets, be they scrathers, pick 3, pick 4, etc...

(This time around they are taking all tickets, sometimes it was just scrathcers)

Or do they just take one ticket per every envelope sent in