Lottery Raffles

Reply #11

cps10 — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:15:32 GMT

Nope...I'm told I'm pretty lovable :) LOL

Reply #10

rdc137 — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:57:15 GMT

Actually, it means The Fat One literally translated. Appropriately named too. I think it might be one of the most generous lotteries in the world. And besides, have you ever met a fat guy who isn't loveable

Reply #9

cps10 — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:33:32 GMT

I wish it were modeled after the EL GORDO...that seems, from what I've read, to be as good a chance as any to win anything worth a crap. And you have a decent shot at winning a ton of money.

Reply #8

Tenaj — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:32:40 GMT

I like them. I wish NC had some.

Reply #7

cps10 — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:29:45 GMT

I know this was kind of dead...but is EL GORDO the same thing?

How does this work? You get a ticket with a ticket number on it, like say 123456. And what happens? Do they draw a ticket out of the hopper to be declared the winner and then they distribute other prizes based on that ticket number? Or are balls brought out of the hopper? I see that EL GORDO pays 1 in every 6 tickets. That's not bad is it

Reply #6

floridian — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:14:22 GMT

Stavros:

Man! you are correct the odds are a lot better. I just was trying to see how everybody felt.

I too will bite the bullett and buy some tickets. What the heck its Christmas soon.

Unlike Bob P I am not running for political office so I don't care who thinks spending $20.00 for a raffle ticket is silly.

F

Reply #5

stavros — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:47:16 GMT

Floridian.....dumb luck or not, I'll take it any way I can get it. The odds are much better in this raffle than planying other games. I'm going to cut back a bit on my pick 3/4's and buy some of these raffle tickets.

Stavros

Reply #4

floridian — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:33:41 GMT

I am not sure I like them because it is pure dumb luck if you win. There is not any strategy to it. However, the odds seem to be better. But maybe it is all dumb luck anyway.

I started a thread about Florida,s Holiday Millionaire Raffle to see if it would peak some LP players interest if such a thing was available in their state.

The facts:

Each ticket costs $20.00

Total sales not to exceed 1,250,000 selling stops on 12/30 or sooner if max ticket sales reached.

Prizes 10 f... [ More ]

Reply #3

Todd — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:22:08 GMT

Spain's El Gordo lottery started this a long time ago -- these raffle games are nothing new. They also copy the fact that El Gordo's biggest raffle was at Christmas. El Gordo means The Big One .

Reply #2

bobby623 — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 18:11:41 GMT

Raffles are better than the regular scratch card games, IMHO.

Main reason is that often the top prizes in a regular game are won, but the cards continue to be sold.

In these instances, folks who don't take the time to check out latest info, are buying worthless tickets - worthless in the sense that they think they can win big when all they are likely to win are small prizes, or no prizes at all.

Not everyone who buys a raffle ticket will win, of course.

Reply #1

justxploring — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 17:40:32 GMT

This is a good subject. Todd just posted an article about the FL New Year's game, so you might see some answers on that thread. I found this one by searching. I am not sure what I think. $20 for one ticket is a lot of money for me, although I see people spending $100 or more every week at the counter for scratch tickets or Lotto. I might buy 1 or 2, since the odds of 125,000 to 1 are much better than 22 million to 1 for the 6/53 game, although the payoff is less. Even if I buy 20 Lotto tic... [ More ]

Lottery Raffles

rwsmes — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 04:04:42 GMT

So what does this group think of the new trend in Raffles with set amount of tickets being sold