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N.C. Gov. renews call for lotteryNews Story
North Carolina Governor Mike Easley renewed his commitment to establishing a state lottery in his State of the State Address last night.Although Easley said that his proposed budget will not include money from a lottery, budget analysts say that a state lottery could raise at least $300 million a year.Easley recounted during his speech a man at a church who was against the lottery. He was selling me a raffle ticket at the time. Well, I'm for the education raffle, Easley said.In 2002 Easley f
Feb 22, 2005, 11:37 am - Todd - Lottery News

El Gordo awards over €2.4 billion in famous Christmas raffleNews Story
Winning numbers for top prizes announced this morning By Kate Northrop The Spanish Lottery has released the winning numbers for El Gordo (The Fat One), the most well-known, largest raffle in history, measured by prize payout. In 2020, the Christmas raffle is handing out over 2.4 billion (US$ 2.9 billion) in prizes. That's 28 million (US$34 million) more than last year. Traditionally, two children from the San Ildefonso school sing out the winning five-digit number for the 4 million (US$
Dec 22, 2020, 11:59 am - Todd - Lottery News

PA Raffle CountdownReply
An observation from the raffle that just ended ... I finally got around to actually checking my numbers. I had scanned the tickets on Monday but never checked my numbers against the winning list of numbers ... to see how close any of my tickets might have been to one of the eight large winning tickets. None of my tickets were close to any large prize ... however, it seems again that those that bought last minute tickets on Oct 31st ... just hours before the drawing had a shot at several large
Nov 6, 2015, 6:35 am - Crazy Wombat - Lottery Discussion Forum

How would you design a game so more people win?Reply
can't be done , the must simple thing your asking for is already here its called, raffle games everyone gets a ticket and their a lot more top winners the real issue is this, You Cant have the sells of powerball and mega millions giving a small army of winners WITHOUT the Large singe jackpot , this is reality, We Are Greedy, We See Big Numbers, We Buy More People don't spend money on lottery games if they SEE LOW NUMBERS powerball has already tryed to pass the winning
Jan 29, 2011, 10:35 pm - joshuacloak - Jackpot Games Forum

D.C. Lottery hopes raffle will bring fiscal successNews Story
The D.C. Lottery's Quick Cash game had been around for more than 15 years when Todd Zimmerman walked into Rodman's Drugs in Northwest in February 2005 and bought two $1 tickets. With three games on each ticket, the government contractor won the maximum $250,000 jackpot for each of the six games. But the improbable $1.5 million payout also helped put the D.C. Lottery's Quick Cash game more than $640,000 in the red for the year, records show. Within months, the game was canceled, although lo
Jul 3, 2007, 9:46 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Dad, son step up as $1 million lottery winnersNews Story
Weeks of small-town speculation ended yesterday when the Pennsylvania Lottery Commission confirmed a West Pennsboro Twp. family won $1 million on a ticket sold at the local pharmacy. Matthew Campbell and his father, Alvin, who live less than a half-mile from the MGM Pharmacy, snagged the prize during the July 4 drawing of the Millionaire Raffle. The identity of the winner had been the talk of the community since word filtered out that a winning ticket had been sold at MGM. For lit
Jul 21, 2006, 11:39 am - Todd - Lottery News

Montana Lottery draws annual Montana Millionaire raffle winning numbersNews Story
The Montana Millionaire winning numbers were drawn on Friday, and the grand-prize-winning ticket worth $1 million was sold in Butte. The million-dollar ticket number is 024279. There were also three tickets worth $100,000 each; one was sold in Butte, and two were sold in Great Falls. The winning numbers are 023452, 083597, and 147877. There were five $10,000 tickets sold; two were sold in Billings, and one each was sold in Glasgow, Laurel, and Hamilton. The complete list of winning n
Dec 30, 2017, 9:08 am - Todd - Lottery News

Question Regarding The Odds of The Pennsylvania Millionaire RaffleReply
Let's look at the manual aspect of a raffle. If we assume there are 500,000 raffle tickets sold and each prize winning ticket is drawn one at a time from the mixing drum, then we need to examine what is happening at each moment of selection. In the 1st Top Prize, one ticket is selected from the drum of 500,000. The odds of one purchased ticket winning the 1st Top Prize is 1 : 499,999. Now, the drum is closed and the tickets are mixed again. How many tickets a left in the drum?
Jan 16, 2016, 1:33 pm - JADELottery - Lottery Discussion Forum

PA Raffle CountdownReply
Now, some of you good folks may know that I live in New York State, and that I drove about an hour to PA to buy raffle tickets for this last raffle. I bought a total of 11 tickets. Seven for me, three for two guys at work, and one for my brother. The day before I drove over to PA, I saw my brother. Here's a bit of how our conversation went; Me: I'm driving over to Matamoras tomorrow. (We were born there and spent a portion of our childhood there) Him: Why ya goin' over there? Me:
Nov 2, 2015, 6:28 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Discovery - New PA Raffle Game ChangeReply
Ron ... you have some great ideas, yes I would also buy a $50 or $100 raffle ticket with very good odds or lower number of tickets ... of course I would only be buying one ticket. I also like the idea of a raffle game every month ... maybe 100,000 total tickets sold as you mentioned. However, I hope the Lottery will just leave the game alone for now and try the new format a few more times. They don't have to make a killing on every raffle game ... as long as they can cover all the prizes and
Oct 14, 2015, 11:32 am - Crazy Wombat - Lottery Discussion Forum