New Year Raffles?

Reply #21

GiveFive — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:24:51 GMT

There might be a way for you to get a PA Millionaire Raffle ticket without having to travel to PA. If interested send me a Private Message. G5

Reply #20

Genome — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 15:54:25 GMT

I wish I could get the PA raffle tickets, but its too much of a hike to get there from Eastern MA where I live. I have today and tomorrow off from work, so might think about getting more CT super draw tickets today possibly.

Reply #19

HAMMY WAMMY — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 01:58:25 GMT

My friend is in Pa right now, shes going to bring me back 2 raffle tickets.

I Was in montana this weekend picked up 6 raffle tickets $20 each odds 1 out of 150k . They will have 1 one-million winner. 2 early birds for $25k $15k coming up. And they will have 3 $100k second place tickets 5 $10k tickets then a bunch of $100 $500 winners.

Also picked up 1 idaho raffle $10 ticket odds 1 out of 250k. 1 one-million winner. Second place will be 2 $10k winners then a bunch of $25 $250 winners.

Reply #18

GiveFive — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 15:18:28 GMT

Maybe I was too hard on The Connecticut Lottery.

Three and a half million people live in Connecticut. 12.8 million people live in Pennsylvania. Obviously there's a bigger opportunity to sell raffle tickets in PA than there is in CT.

CT has been selling their raffle tickets since Oct 15th, and having sold 24,800 as of yesterday says they are selling at a rate of about 800 per day. My guess is they'll sell out anyway. The big rush to buy tickets at Christmas will probably get the job done.G... [ More ]

Reply #17

GiveFive — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 14:44:12 GMT

Well, I just took a look at my CT SuperDraw tickets, which in turn made me go to the CT Lottery's website...

First, it isn't $10,000 per player for the top prize in each of the Early Bird drawings. It's $1,000 per player for a total of ten players. Now I know why my ticket numbers are in the 24,800 to 24,850 range. (That's about 10% of all tickets that can be sold.) Looks like the player response to Early Bird drawings isn't as robust as PA's was for The Early Bird drawings leading up to the... [ More ]

Reply #16

GiveFive — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 08:05:55 GMT

Was in CT yesterday and thanks to your post I knew they were running The Superdraw Raffle again. I stopped at a gas station and bought three. It's been quite a while since they last offered it.

I wont be buying any more than three tickets though. Pennsylvania started selling tickets last Tuesday for it's New Years Millionaire Raffle which I prefer over CT's. Four one million dollar winners vs one in CT, and the odds are 125,000 to 1. Early Bird winners top prize is $100,000 vs $10,000 too. H... [ More ]

Reply #15

Ron5995 — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 06:58:28 GMT

Shame, but understandable. Raffle tickets are a struggle to sell. Not just because of the price, but also the long wait for the drawing. Somewhat surprised PA Lottery still conducts such raffles despite the expense and relatively low profit margin (30%-40% verses usual 50%) compared to regular numbers games. Glad it's still available. Will likely buy a ticket or two.

As to why it's still offered. My guess is many loyal players expect there to be a raffle, though despite not earning much itsel... [ More ]

Reply #14

Jeopardy1941 — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 04:46:42 GMT

Seems like PA is hardly promoting this raffle, the one earlier in the year they hit the ads early during the first week of sales.

Reply #13

HAMMY WAMMY — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 03:12:51 GMT

Do any of you have a raffle strategy? If you are going to buy 10 tickets... Do you think it's better to buy all 10 at one time? Or space out buying tickets over a few weeks yo end up with 10

Reply #12

gatorsrok — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 02:51:04 GMT

Florida stopped doing them, in part, because they didn't make enough money. They would release 750,000 tickets and only sell about 600,000. They still made a profit, but it was minor. Basically, they made just as much profit on a few nights of Fantasy 5 drawings. Plus it cost a lot to advertise and promote. With that said, I'd like to see it come back with a small ticket pool. It's possible they bring it back in the summer.

Reply #11

ciana — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 21:13:49 GMT

Thanks

Reply #10

Genome — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 16:40:51 GMT

Massachusetts stopped doing raffles in 2014. I don't know why. I liked them. Rhode Island stopped doing them also a few years back. And they were extremely popular too in RI. It was a big thing. I got 1 RI raffle ticket once in 2011. I wish they do them again so I can take another trip out there. I went out to to Connecticut to get 3 of there raffle tickets a couple weeks ago. $1,000,000 prize at 1 in 275,000 odds. Hopefully I can get lucky.

Reply #9

GiveFive — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 12:53:41 GMT

It was hard for me to believe that PA wouldn't have a New Year's raffle in 2018. They've been holding raffles at least twice per year since 2003. But they did manage to scare me a bit this Fall. In the past, they started advertising the New Years Raffle in October on their website. Until just recently there was no mention of it, and even then I had to dig down to find it. Tickets went on sale yesterday.

For the first time this past July, PA, held eight Early Bird drawings. If you bought a ti... [ More ]

Reply #8

OrangeCrush — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 20:35:26 GMT

I don't think they had the $100,000 last year (maybe it was $25,000 or $50,000). Great

Reply #7

mztb1989 — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 20:15:47 GMT

It s 500 $500 not 500 $50

Reply #6

ciana — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 18:17:50 GMT

I just checked PA and they have the same odds for $1,000,000. Selling more tickets at 500,000 with 4 million dollar winners. They also have $100,000 winners.

Florida is still showing 2016-2017 results, so it's not looking good.

Reply #5

ciana — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 18:15:08 GMT

Their website is updated. 3 million dollar winners, 5 $100,000 winners, and 500 $50 winners. Selling 375,000 tickets. I might go with Virginia because $100,000 would also be helpful.

Reply #4

OrangeCrush — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 19:41:38 GMT

I wonder if they (Virginia) will offer more prizes. Earlier this year they sent me a survey and the questions asked about having more prizes and having a raffle drawing more than once per year.

Reply #3

ciana — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 13:46:11 GMT

Virginia has a short note that they will start sales next week, but no details on the number of tickets or prizes.

Reply #2

HAMMY WAMMY — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 01:41:45 GMT

I'm really disappointed Florida isn't doing the raffle. My friend is vacationing there next week and I was gonna have her get me a few.

Idaho and Montana both have a millionaire raffle going on right now. I'll get a few from Montana and 1 from idaho.

Reply #1

Ron5995 — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 22:45:25 GMT

Pennsylvania is again offering a News Years raffle starting Tuesday Nov-7th with weekly $100,000 early bird drawings.

Haven't seen details yet, but likely same as in past years. My guess is 500,000 tickets as usual. And, as in past raffles, likely: 4 $1 million prizes, 4 $100K prizes, 100 $1K prizes, and 5,892 $100 prizes.

New Year Raffles?

ciana — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 19:26:47 GMT

It looks like Florida is not holding their Millionaire Raffle this New Years. Are any states