Approx dates of millionaire raffle tickets sold:
96061- June 10
147664- June 18
204958- June 26
350091- July 8 (1 day before drawing)
Sales started May 3rd (67 day ticket window), so if you bought any tickets the first month you didn't have a chance of hitting anything big, not even a measly grand. I stated that earlier that buying early doesnt seem to pay off, and it was true again, likewise some people on here like to buy with less that two weeks remaining and that appeared to work out again, but I think the timing of the sales and the amount sold per day does tend to skew the results, with 2,000 tickets per day selling during the first month and during the last few days it is usually over 20,000 tickets per day. The PA lottery still did not update their winners page from the Halloween raffle, I find that rather odd even if not all the winners came forward yet.
Looking at the $100K winners, results were heavily favored if you played after July 2nd, which was a week before the drawing. All of the $100K tickets ended up being sold in a 6 day window, which seems odd, but with sales exploding with 10 days left, it is easy to see why they were skewed, but the first $100K ticket sold after 2/3 of the total tickets were already sold. Just goes to show how random the drawings can be. People do get hung up on buying them late because the numbers may tend to favor those who play late but high volume tends to skew the results but in the end all the numbers drawn are random. If I recall correctly, during the last raffle a 1 million dollar ticket sold on the last day or second to last day of the drawing and it happened again this raffle.
The $1000 tickets have the spacing between numbers that I would expect, they were not totally skewed to one end of the drawing like the $100K winners were. Although the first $1,000 dollar winner wasn't sold until June 8, just about a month before the drawing...
I think the mega millions drawing ate into the raffle sales big time during the last couple of days. Early sales were actually quicker than the last raffle by a fair margin. Interesting to see if there will be another Halloween raffle again after three consecutive non sell out raffles. My initial guess 3 weeks before the drawing was for 375000 to sell, but then I raised it by how fast the tickets were a head of the st Patrick's day raffle, but sales didn't peak nearly as high as previous raffles during the last week of sales.