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The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
263272 tickets sold as of 5/21. Let's work this one from the back end. 640900 tickets need to be sold just to fund all prizes (so, does not includes costs incurred by the Lottery to set up the Raffle, or associated advertising, and does not include funding for education, which is the Lottery's raison d'etre.) 640900 minus 263272 leaves 377628 tickets needing to be sold by June 30, the last day to buy tickets (40 days from now.) 377628 divided by 40 equals an average of 9440 tickets need to
May 22, 2026, 3:45 pm - Sum Buddy - Lottery Discussion Forum

Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
I too have had 'trouble' with what's being argued so passionately in this thread. When I lived in the Northeast, although I lived in New York State, I lived in close proximity to Pennsylvania. Every Fall The PA Lottery (for what I'm guessing is the last 20 years or more) holds their Millionaire Raffle. According to the raffles official rules, a maximum of 500,000 tickets can be sold. The PA Lottery has always advertised the odds for the raffle at 125,000 to 1 because there are 4 top prize w
Mar 30, 2026, 7:56 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
Does anybody know if any of the top prize winners of a million dollars in the current raffle will be able to remain anonymous? I won 40 bucks yesterday. I'm going to spend it on two millionaire raffle tickets. If I was ever so lucky to win one of the top prizes, I'd want to claim it anonymously, but I'm not sure that can happen. For Florida draw games (Lotto, PB, MM Fantasy5) only winners names of the top prize (a jackpot win) appear in The Top Prize Winners and Retailers Report publishe
Apr 8, 2026, 8:10 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
The PA raffle logic is based on the number of tickets sold, so if there is a sellout, the odds are correctly stated as 125,000 to 1. (500,000 tickets, 4 top prizes) Now, if there are less tickets sold, only sold numbers go into the raffle... if only half sell, then the possible outcomes are reduced... to 62,500 to 1 (odds) (250,000 tickets, 4 top prizes) They put these tickets that win the weekly $50,000 back in for the big prize drawing, but actually you are correct, the possible outcom
Mar 30, 2026, 8:50 am - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum

Holiday Raffle!Reply
Yup. I had my brother who still lives in New York buy some raffle tickets for me. I bought 5 and they cost $100. He and his wife were here in Florida over the holidays and gave them to me. No luck at all, but I'm a raffle guy and I'd buy them again without any hesitation. G5
Jan 9, 2026, 12:50 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
I think they're doing a raffle as just a way to shake it up and try something different. Raffles do well in other states, so maybe they can catch on here too. I'd think that a first or second time (in so many years) might fly under the radar, but bring awareness to this new way to play after it concludes and later if a new round begins. This round would advertise the next, so to speak, as people who didn't play hear about the winnings. A loss of revenue once isn't a loss if it becomes a spri
Apr 19, 2026, 3:38 pm - winterbird - Lottery Discussion Forum

Impact of "Free Money" on Lottery SpendingReply
I'm a mental accounting guy myself. Last week I won 40 bucks playing a dice game called Left, Right, Center. The Old Fogies that live around here play it at The Activity Center once per month. They get a group of maybe 100 people sitting around tables rolling dice trying to win the pot . Unbelievable how LOUD those fogies start screaming when they start rollin' them bones. From lookin' at 'em, you wouldn't think they had that much life left in 'em. (Not that I aint an Old Fogie myself or nu
Apr 11, 2026, 9:35 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
This might not amount to a hill of beans to anyone but FWIW..... The Pennsylvania Millionaire Raffle winning numbers were generated by a Random Number Generator. I would think that'll be the case with the upcoming Florida Lottery's raffle as well. Makes no difference to me. G5
Mar 30, 2026, 5:48 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
To each his or her own. Twenty bucks a throw is steep. That's why whenever there's a raffle (which isn't all that often) I cut back on the other lottery games I regularly play. That's what keeps me from over spending my monthly lottery budget. My thinking is the 20 dollar ticket price is a premium players have to pay for the greatly reduced odds of winning a top prize, not to mention there's a guaranteed jackpot winner(s). Many is the time I've heard a player say about a raffle Players
Mar 9, 2026, 6:05 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
Hi Sum Buddy! Nice to see you posting. It's been a while since I've read a post from you! I'd going to ask you a couple of questions.... Did you buy your raffle tickets because you felt that you really could or just might actually win one of the top prizes? Did you buy your tickets because there will be multiple top prize winners on July 2nd? Or did you buy your tickets for both of the above reasons? If so, then you're just like almost every other member of The Lottery Pla
Mar 29, 2026, 8:10 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum