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I'm Thinking About Driving Over to OregonReply
Just saw this on their website: The Raffle is your best chance to win a million bucks. The next one will be on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 2016. Tickets will go on sale at the beginning of the new year. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Darn it! Oh well that'll save me some money. I'm still only buying 1 Idaho raffle ticket because I hate the prize structure.
Oct 21, 2015, 5:34 pm - HoLeeKau - Lottery Discussion Forum

Discovery - New PA Raffle Game ChangeReply
Thanks so much for an utterly fantastic post!!! Lots of food for thought in there, especially the payback percentage comparison to $20 scratch offs. That's something I have never considered. I'm in New York and I've no idea what the payback percentage is on $20 scratch offs here, but I would think that it's commensurate with PA's. But then for me personally, I'm not much a scratch offs player. I indulge myself with them every once in a blue moon, but that's all. I'm planning on buying at leas
Oct 14, 2015, 5:19 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mass-Cash Like Game Coming to Pa ...Reply
GameGrl ... Thanks, I was hoping the PA Lottery might kick the idea around. I should have made it more clear that I didn't want the Cash 5 game to be replaced or go away. I think the Pick 2 game is silly, playing dollars for so little return ... $50 top prize. I rather put those dollars on a game like Mass-Cash. I could do a lot more with $100,000 than $50. I just would like a decent jackpot game with good odds that only cost $1.00 ... I'm tired of all these $2.00 ticket prices. I lose twice
Sep 25, 2015, 5:28 am - Crazy Wombat - Pick 5 Forum

Take5 NYReply
YP, Thanks. Now I have to figure out if I want to tell the guys in the pool I run at work about it. Twenty bucks is a lot to ask from them. Maybe I'll wait and ask them if they'd like to play the January 2016 raffle. Even if I don't ask them, I'll probably buy a few tickets for myself for The Halloween raffle. Because my wife's job takes her over to PA about once a month, I don't have to make a special trip over there. The next time she's in PA I'll probably have her pick up a couple of t
Aug 25, 2015, 6:57 am - GiveFive - Pick 5 Forum

PA Raffle Tickets on Sale - Drawing July 11, 2015Reply
I sat this one out, but I have never won anything on the raffle over the many years I've played. Guessing I've bought at least 40+ tickets ($800+ worth) over that time, and possibly somewhat more. While the overall odds are 1 in ~83 (well except this time; 1 in ~77), to never win anything isn't surprising on such limited play, but still disappointing. The excitement just isn't there. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the PA Lottery offers a millionaire raffle, but it's time for them to change it u
Jul 14, 2015, 8:37 am - Ron5995 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Being tempted to check my numbers regularly!Reply
In addition to not wanting to find a winning ticket after it expired, I wouldn't want to misplace a ticket and not be able to find it at a later date. So I check them whenever I've bought them. Checking my tickets is part of my daily routine. (That's IF I bought a ticket the day before) There are days when I don't buy tickets simply because I was busy with other things, or like yesterday when was out of my home state of New York. I was over in Connecticut yesterday, but I didn't buy tickets o
Apr 12, 2015, 7:31 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Take5 NYReply
G5 you are a traitor like Demarco Murray leaving the state for mo money lol!!! Man oh man I was hoping he stayed but the Feagles paid him big bucks. I hope you hit some big ones on those raffle tickets New Yawk Lottery is about due for those raffle tickets again those were $10 dollah's a pop and yup did not win a snip thing. I know you don't play the 3-4 digit games but a few days ago on BONUS day/night the 000 popped paid out $600 instead of $500 and normally the NYL puts a cap on the payout $5
Mar 14, 2015, 8:53 pm - Mink404Ski - Pick 5 Forum

Take5 NYReply
Ya got nuthin to worry about Mink. I cant play 'em tonite. We drove over to Connecticut this afternoon and I bought four CT 50/50 SuperDraw raffle tickets. One lucky ticket will win 50% of total sales is what it says on the ticket. Four of those babies cost me 20 bucks, so there's no T5 for me tonite. G5 As a matter of fact, there wont be any T5 for me for most of this week as a result of buying those tickets. I was only gonna buy two, but then I realized that the drawing is next Wednesda
Mar 14, 2015, 8:13 pm - GiveFive - Pick 5 Forum

Is mega millions worth playing anymore?Reply
Long Odds, That's an excellent analogy with the ball parks and a raffle. I've always looked at raffles this way, in a lottery game $1 or $2 wins millions, tens of millions, or 100 or hundreds of millions depending on the game and jackpot. In a raffle, like your example of the NY one where a $10 ticket can win $1M, in essence every dollar wins $100,000. Not bad but as far a 'most bang for the buck' that's whoop tee do as compared to lotto jackpots.
Feb 25, 2015, 8:30 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

PA Raffle Countdown to 500,000 ...Reply
Last summer in a thread discussing the Summertime Ct SuperDraw Raffle, someone complained that they did not like the value involved with the purchase of a ticket. Call me stupid, but that's a concept that I completely fail to grasp. To me it's a binary thing. You either want a ticket or you don't. When I buy one, I have absolutely no thoughts of any kind with regard to value. Look, everybody knows that playing the lottery is a sucker's bet. That said I, just like many other people, want a sho
Dec 24, 2014, 8:05 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum