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The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!
Beginning March 1st, The Florida Lottery began selling Millionaire Raffle tickets. Some of the Official rules are as follows - Play Period. March 1 June 30, 2026, dates inclusive, or until 2,000,000 Millionaire Raffle tickets (hereafter Raffle ticket/s ) have been sold, whichever occurs first. Ticket Price and Quantity. A maximum of 2,000,000 Raffle tickets will be available for sale at a price of $20.00 each. Upon the sale of the 2,000,000 th Raffle ticket, tickets will no longer be sold. A
Mar 8, 2026, 1:42 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Who are you going to tell after you win the monday's powerball jackpot.Reply
Agreed, what else can you possibly do! Mr. Panouses is very aware of the reasons I put into my post above. He knows what most people don't know. Those reasons dictate to him that if he wants to specialize as a Lottery Lawyer, then he'll have to advertise heavily. If he picks up clients located in states other than Florida, so much the better. My thinking is along the lines of the law is the law pretty much wherever you go. (At least Florida Lottery laws apply equally to everybody that l
Dec 22, 2025, 6:53 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Multi state gamesReply
I live in Florida therefore I could buy a Florida Lotto ticket. Currently, Florida Lotto's advertised jackpot is 3.2 million dollars. The odds of winning it are 22,957,480 to 1 . I can also buy a PowerBall ticket. Given how I play 3 identical lines with the PowerPlay option added, if I matched 5+0, I could win 6 million dollars. The odds of winning PB's second place prize are 11,688,053 to 1 . So it's half as hard to win a PB second place prize of $6 million compared to winning a Florida Lo
Dec 3, 2025, 10:10 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

PowerballReply
Texas does appear to be easier not to mention cheaper than Florida to claim anonymously. In Florida a player could utilize statue 1024.51 to claim anonymously and fore go using an attorney. That said, after 90 days the Florida Lottery would release the name of the winner to anyone that asks them. The Florida Lottery thinks 90 days is enough time for a winner to get a head start on doing a disappearing act. I dunno, I guess that all depends on the winners personal situation. As for me, I
Dec 9, 2025, 10:51 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
Florida Raffle 2026: What are the odds? The return of the Florida Lottery Raffle certainly caught my eye. I have thought about the raffle in years past, but did not realize it had been 20 years since the last one. It looks like they have re-vamped the format (multiple drawings instead of one drawing, multiple million-dollar prizes, all tickets purchased valid for all drawings.) But I am curious as to how they have calculated the odds. Now, I have played the Florida Lottery Jackpot Trip
Mar 28, 2026, 2:08 pm - Sum Buddy - 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

PowerballReply
Interestingly, the FL limit for advance play on PB is 52 drawings No it's not. I'm looking at a current Florida PB bet/play slip and the highest number in the advance drawings check boxes is 39. It looks like this == 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 15 20 25 30 35 39. I suppose it's possible for a player to tell the clerk they want to play 13 advance draws, and the clerk could possibly manually enter that amount of drawings in the terminal. Anyway I don't care about the circumstances surrounding how that $39
Dec 7, 2025, 9:48 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida and Claiming a Jackpot AnonymouslyReply
Right. They shouldn't have a problem putting a winners face and name on their website. To my mind the real question is do they require it? Theoretically they could put any given winners picture that had claimed anonymously on their website after six months had elapsed, but that's IF The Florida Lottery requires winners pictures to appear on their website like New York does. It's possible they dont. And they might not even have taken the winners picture at the time the ticket was claimed beca
Dec 6, 2025, 9:22 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Money and the Crime of KidnapingReply
I realize that you haven't actually threatened to go check it out That's correct. I wrote my over the top 'gallows humor' post completely tongue in cheek. But someone could rightly challenge me by saying And Just how do I know that? My answer would be Well, you don't. But it's true. That'd be the best response I could give. A fair amount of time has passed since when Artist77 scolded me by asking if anybody else was creeped out by what I wrote, and nobody answered her (probably rhetorical)
Feb 21, 2026, 7:42 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Impact of "Free Money" on Lottery SpendingReply
And that's IF you can buy a homeowner policy. In Florida that's not all that easy to do. Many big insurance companies won't write a homeowners policy in Florida. Those that do, charge big money and in my estimation will fight any submitted claim tooth and nail rather than pay it. Then there's the hurricane deductible that must be by Florida law included in each and every homeowners policy. It's a separate deductible from a normal deductible. During hurricane season, June1st to November 30th,
Apr 9, 2026, 12:06 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum