Ohio Lottery rings in the New Year with raffle

Comment #14

Rowen — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:38:53 GMT

Well they wimp out and extend it to 1/20 with 150,000 tix left. I would rather see them do that and make some profit so there will be more raffle in the future. Of course I gonna be holding one of the winning mil dollar ticket so it would be a good send-off

Comment #13

Stack47 — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:23:33 GMT

Some state lotteries have done that and paid out exactly what the advertised while others have extended drawing dates and/or restructured prize funds. If any state lottery can't sell half the tickets before the drawing date, somebody made a poor decision and should be fired. Once they cross the half way point and still decide to extend the date or reduce prizes, the entire lottery staff should be fired.

Comment #12

Stack47 — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:13:34 GMT

The worst thing a lottery could do is extending the drawing date or restructure the prize fund!

Especially when the raffles have a holiday theme. Players lose confidence in a lottery when a Christmas raffle is extended until Good Friday or a 4th of July raffle is extended to Labor Day. Ohio had to sell 250,000 raffle tickets to break even so even if they only sold 400,000 tickets, they would still made a nice profit. Making an announcement the drawing would be extended or the prize fund would... [ More ]

Comment #11

Rowen — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:31:43 GMT

Have they ever just hold drawing anyway regardless? There are only 2 days left and 160,000 tix left. Was hoping for better odds. oh well

Comment #10

sully16 — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:37:08 GMT

come on up to michigan, we got a good raffle, if all the tickets aren't sold by the draw date , they extend the date until they are sold.

Comment #9

Stack47 — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:46:27 GMT

I was wondering about that too because this year, the first ticket sold was ticket #500000. In the past when Ohio didn't sell out, they only drew from the tickets sold without a decrease in the prizes and I saw many winning tickets numbered below #038000.

Comment #8

Todd — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:08:07 GMT

That's my fault, sorry. I was in a rush and I left the 38,000 part in there accidentally. I have updated the story to remove that remark.

Comment #7

mymonthlypicks — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:29:32 GMT

I don't UnderStand, Seem Like they Draw Winners on Number not SOLD

The $20 tickets for the raffle went on sale Nov. 20. Of the 500,000 tickets that were available, all but about 38,000 were sold.

$10,000 Winners (10)

021850

$1,500 Winners (120)

000339 015345 016058 018029 018796 024083 025755 026830 027843 030524 037735

$500 Winners (1,000) 75

000822 001392 001708 001 864 002991 003086 003728 004571 004972 005456 005641 005968 006137 007092 007535 008461 009158 009241 009369... [ More ]

Comment #6

beaudad — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:06:53 GMT

wow you were so close !!!!!!! very close

Comment #5

LotteryGuy — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:20:34 GMT

Oh, one more thing. Hang on to your non-winning tickets because usually a couple of days after the drawing the Ohio Lottery will post to turn your non-winning tickets in to any Giant Eagle store to be eligible to win prizes from the store like a $500 gift card, free lottery tickets and free gas

Comment #4

LotteryGuy — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:16:35 GMT

Not sure where the news story came from but tickets were sold from 000001 to 500000, not in reverse order. Below were my numbers:

Ö137304

137305 - $500 WINNER!

137306

Ö137307

137308

Ö137309

Ö137310

Ö137311

137312

Ö137313

Ö137314

137315

Ö137316

137317

137318

Ö137319

Ö137320

137321

137322

Ö137323

137324

137325

137326

Ö137327

Ö137328

The ones with the check marks were my numbers! I tried playing the in a row but of c... [ More ]

Comment #3

beaudad — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:35:11 GMT

I bought a ticket when I was in Ohio !........I had bought a raffle ticket for a Kentucky raffle a year or two ago...........(didn't win).......It certainly was more exciting to have one from Ohio.........My ticket number was 362352........(I was more excited getting a 20 dollar raffle ticket than getting a 20 dollar scratch off............)..........beaudad.......

Comment #2

jeffrey — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:53:42 GMT

They were sold from 1 to 500,000 this year. Unfortunately, no hits for me. I hope someone I bought one for hit.

Comment #1

Rowen — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:15:41 GMT

Nope no winners for me.

Ohio Lottery rings in the New Year with raffle

Lottery Post — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:08:13 GMT

For four lucky Ohio lottery players, 2010 will begin with a windfall of one million dollars.

The winning numbers for the Ohio Lottery's New Year's Raffle game were announced this evening. The full list of lottery results can be found on Lottery Post's Ohio Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/oh).

The $20 tickets for the raffle went on sale Nov. 20. 500,000 tickets were available.

This is the third consecutive New Year's Raffle for the Ohio Lottery. The game has the best od... [ More ]