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Millionaire Raffles- are you in ?Reply
Players for the Pennsylvania raffle will have the numbers posted after 8.pm on the website. (I often enjoy watching the live drawing of this particular game). Otherwise I do respect the right to honor our past president :) THE DEC 30 LIVE 7 P.M. MILLIONAIRE RAFFLE DRAWING WILL BE PRE-EMPTED BY COVERAGE OF FORMER PRESIDENT FORD'S FUNERAL. RESULTS AVAILABLE AT RETAILER LOCATIONS AND THIS WEB SITE AFTER 8 P.M. ON DEC 30.
Dec 29, 2006, 7:56 pm - TheGameGrl - Jackpot Games Forum

Millionaire Raffles- are you in ?Reply
I'm in for the million dollar raffle. I see no difference in a raffle ticket vs a quick pick on jackpot games. All in the luck of the draw.
Dec 21, 2006, 6:24 pm - JAP69 - Jackpot Games Forum

Ball-Drawn Raffles
Many of us on this forum are strictly opposed to computerized drawings. The new lottery raffle games are being computer selected. This makes me wonder: Should these raffles be drawn with balls instead of computer selected? A possible way to do it (using Pennsylvania as an example): PA's first raffle sold 500,000 tickets (since increased to 625,000, but bear with me). The tickets were numbered from 00000001 (1) to 00500000 (500,000). To run this as a ball drawn lottery, instead of ticket 500,0
Dec 15, 2006, 6:05 pm - rdc137 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Odds Don't Change When Jackpot Goes UPReply
1 ticket = 1in14mil 2 tickets = 1in7mil I agree with Coin Toss, but I think the confusion might be that the lottery isn't the same as a raffle. Recently there have been some state raffles with limited tickets printed. So when then FL lottery sold 1,250,000 tickets and announced that 10 people would win $1 million, the odds became 1 in 125,000. (odds stated on the FL web site) So winning a raffle with a set amount of tickets that will be selected has nothing to do with the amount of c
Dec 6, 2006, 3:23 am - justxploring - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida Millionaire Christmas Raffle Sold OutReply
stavros...granted you have had increased spending. The critical issue from the state's standpoint is profit, i.e. what is directed to the education fund. How much did you cutback and what percentage/amount of that would have gone to the state? Does the amount of profit realized from your $100 in raffle sales offset that amount? Does the state come out ahead or behind? (note: stavors, I am not asking for your spending pattern, just asking more of a generalized question.) The only way to
Dec 1, 2006, 12:28 pm - CA LotteryGuy - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida Raffle Ticket Sales BoomingReply
Interesting - I didn't realize they did that before. I always thought the money went back into the Jackpot. One time when the unclaimed ticket was for a $22 million jackpot (or something close to it) they voted to give the money to the schools. Most unclaimed tickets are for Fant 5 from what I can tell, although I'll bet many people don't claim the lower tier prizes for Lotto either. I wrote this on another thread, but I've been watching the ads on TV for the raffle and they definitely are
Nov 29, 2006, 4:27 am - justxploring - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida Raffle Ticket Sales BoomingReply
I want to add that I just read the .pdf file on the rules of the raffle, which are interesting. It describes how they are selecting the prizes. As in any raffle, they'll be drawing the winning tickets in order. 130 tickets will be drawn in order. The first 10 will be awarded the million dollars prize, then 11-30 will win $100,000 each and 31-130 will win $10,000 each. However, after 180 days any top prizes not claimed will be paid to an alternate. That is, anyone who claimed the $100,000 prize
Nov 24, 2006, 3:19 am - justxploring - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida Raffle Ticket Sales Booming
They started on Monday and already almost 50% of the 1,250,000 have been sold as of about 4pm today. The tickets are $20.00 each. In my opinion a bargain considering the odds. Good luck to everyone who has purchased one or several. Floridian
Nov 23, 2006, 9:36 pm - floridian - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida Multi-StateReply
I will be very surprised if they do. Why should they? They make too much now to share it with anybody. The current Christmas raffle, just a little sideline game will raise about $25 million. The ticket sales started on Monday and by 5pm yesterday the tickets sales amounted to 30% of the total being sold in the raffle. That it raising over $7,000,000 in less than two days. Why in the world would they need to become part of a multi-state lottery with that kind of a customer base? They thoug
Nov 22, 2006, 2:55 am - floridian - Lottery Discussion Forum

Maryland Lottery to offer limited-run raffle-style gameReply
You might want to try the Delaware Raffle. The Grand Prize is $250,000 but it offers the best odds of any raffle in the North East and the price is only $10 not $20. 1 in 100,000 for the grand prize and 1 in 390 for a prize of at least $500. Only 100,000 tickets available and over 30% are already sold. A million is nice, but $250,000 with those odds is a better bet. And in Delaware you can remain anonymous as a winner and there are no state taxes on gambling winnings. Think about it.
Nov 21, 2006, 10:00 pm - rwsmes - Lottery News