New York- The Million Dollar Raffle

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GiveFive — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:08:54 GMT

New Yorkers do play raffle games... except they do it in Pennsylvania.

New York's border state of Pennsylvania has been holding their Millionaire Raffle for more than the last 20 consecutive years.

They sell just 500,00 tickets, ($20 each) tickets sales run from November 4, 2025 to January 3, 2025. Odds are 125,000 to 1 to win one million dollars due to the fact they award four one million dollar prizes. I can't ever recall a Millionaire Raffle drawing where they didn't sell all 500,000... [ More ]

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LottoBux — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 13:55:07 GMT

It would seem that New Yorkers don't really play raffle draws.

Maybe the big prize being just $1 Million was not enticing enough for the $20 cost.

Can't really blame 'em. For $20,I'd be looking for a bigger payout myself.

But the odds were 1 in 2 million compared to the big draw games odds.

Somewhere around only 40% of tickets were sold for this draw.

Great odds for the ones that did play though

New York- The Million Dollar Raffle

Long Odds — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:31:13 GMT

New York Lottery held a raffle-style drawing the concluded on October 26, 2025. Buy-in was $20/ticket and the game was advertised as the best odds to win $1,000,000; as the following indicates, those odds got remarkably better for those that played. Reportedly, only 791,352 of the planned 2,000,000 tickets were sold; this was over a many month marketing campaign. Apparently NYL took a bath as there were 15, $1,000,000 grand prize winners, 15, $100,000 second prize winners, 15, $25,000 third plac... [ More ]