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Rising Gas Prices and the LotteryReply
My next cut would be not to play at all. I am down to $12 a week for PB... that is it, no more pick n games. I will be picking up a pa raffle ticket in november also.
May 6, 2026, 6:45 pm - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
I'm thinking about buying more tickets, but the big question for me is how many would I buy? I posted above that I won 40 bucks (cash) and I did buy one ticket with that money. I still have the other twenty dollar bill in my wallet, so maybe I'll buy another ticket with that. For now I'm keeping my eye on the raffle just to see what happens. Sales have been slow... about 3600 a day, so if they remain slow that'll have some bearing on whether or not I'll buy more. I'm a fan of raffles..
Apr 19, 2026, 9:42 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
The actual number of tickets sold for the first interim drawing, as posted on the Raffle web page, was 122,119. Your estimate was spot on, winterbird!
Apr 3, 2026, 11:45 am - Sum Buddy - Lottery Discussion Forum

Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
It is true that the probability of winning the first prize is 1 in 500,000. It is also true that the probability of winning the second prize, assuming you didn't win the first prize, is 1 in 499,999. The probability of one raffle ticket winning a million dollars is the sum of the probabilities of that raffle ticket winning the first prize OR the second prize OR the third prize OR the fourth prize. One raffle ticket cannot win more than once, which simplifies the calculation a bit. Probab
Mar 30, 2026, 10:09 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
Calculating the straight odds of a raffle is easy, at least by prize tier. You divide the number of tickets sold by the number of prizes. Like for example, if by the end it sells 900,000 tickets, then the odds for the million are 1:90,000. If it sells 1,400,000 tickets, the odds are 1:140,000. There are additional prizes added at the half mil increments of sales. So if it sells 1,600,000 tickets the odds are 1:106,6666. Your personal odds based on how many tickets you buy are equal
Mar 28, 2026, 3:45 pm - winterbird - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
I bought 5 in a row. When my state had the raffle. But next time. If there is a next time. I'm gonna do what your doing.
Mar 13, 2026, 7:20 pm - Justing618 - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
Not even a scratch off? I've bought multiple raffle tickets the last time but I'm one and done on this one. There are only 10 winners if 1,000,000 and less are sold and 20 winners if all 2 million raffles are sold. I know last time I don't even think they reach a million in sales but it'll be interesting to see how this one does given our current state of affairs.
Mar 11, 2026, 1:45 am - speeddmon - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
A $20 ticket for a chance, to win $1 million is steep I agreed with you. I balk at $5 lottery tickets, there's no way I can justify $20 for a chance to win $1 million. I'd honestly rather buy 4 $5 Mega millions tickets(And I absolutely detest $5 Mega millions tickets with every fiber of my being) for a chance to win $496 million than 1 $20 Millionaire raffle ticket.
Mar 9, 2026, 9:34 am - Lotto Motto - Lottery Discussion Forum

Holiday Raffle!Reply
I had 1 PA raffle ticket... #4334... did not win. First time in 3 consecutive years I missed the $100 prize. I will buy one next time as well.
Jan 9, 2026, 6:22 am - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum

Buying MM or PB lottery ticketsReply
When 4 tickets in a pool of 500,000 are chosen at random to be a winner, the probability that a single ticket wins is 1 in 125,000 (I'm assuming they exclude a winning ticket from being able to win again, i.e. they do random draws without replacement). It's a straightforward 4/500000, which reduces to 1/125000 by dividing the numerator and denominator by 4. After they draw the first winner, the probability of a single ticket that didn't win on the first draw turning into a winner is 3 in
Jan 8, 2026, 1:39 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum