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Only 109,999 chances I won't win a million? - Here's my $20! - Gimme a raffle ticket!Reply
regrnr, A little more. Let's take even the lowest jackpot game jackpot, in Illinois it starts at $2,000,000. So you bet a buck and the Lotto Fairy says Today is your day and you hit for a solo. Your dollar just won $2,000,000. The Lotto Fairy decides it's somebody else's lucky day and they hit the raffle for $1,000,000. The other person's $1 on Lotto won $2,000,000. That dollar became a two million dollar dollar. The raffle winner put up $20 to win $1,000,000. Each one of their doll
Nov 5, 2009, 4:28 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Illinois Halloween RaffleReply
Good or bad, I bought 1 raffle ticket today...... Millionaire Raffle Tickets Left - 105,266 So 394,734 sold $7,894,680 sold $5,000,000 in prizes... $2,894,680 in profit so far.... MarkP
Oct 25, 2009, 10:08 pm - markp1950 - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Illinois Halloween RaffleReply
Todd, True. I'm not really anti-raffle, I'm just taking a real deep look at it. I just think of it as a bookie's wet dream, which it is. Illinois has the population to handle a 1,000,000 ticket raffle at $10 a ticket, I just wonder why they don't. Table games, slots, and Pick 5 , Pick 6, and 5 + 1 games don't have known results beforehand as far as will anyone win. Raffles do. Not who will win, but how many will win. That's a lopsided house advantage. Like I said, good luck all.
Oct 2, 2009, 8:36 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

Michigan changing $20 Raffle Again
600,000 tickets This is the prize structure- 593,982 tickets will LOSE $18 or $20 each 6 tickets will win $650,000 12 tickets will win $100,000 2000 tickets will win $500 4000 tickets will win $100 The first 100,000 tickets will cost $18 each
Apr 24, 2008, 9:31 pm - Think - Lottery Discussion Forum

Which is the Smarter Bet?Reply
Captain Lotto - and the person who buys 100 tickets might win nothing at all, not even a lower tier prize in the lottery, while the person who spends a dollar might win millions. I would never go to a store and buy 100 tickets, but it happens. There are people who buy piles of scratch-offs and stay in the store scratching and scratching for an hour. Then someone walks in 20 minutes after he leaves, buys 1 ticket, and wins $50,000 a year for life. Regarding prizes, when I see a game show I
Dec 20, 2007, 4:02 pm - justxploring - Lottery Discussion Forum

Which is the Smarter Bet?Reply
Captain Lotto, I know we all have our personal opinions, but you wrote It's also important to remember that your odds don't improve by buying more tickets. The odds are the same for every ticket you buy. Yes, the odds are the same for each ticket, but your individual chances of winning increase if you have 10 tickets instead of 1. You do only have 10 chances out of 7,777 but with a raffle, someone is going to win and a limited amount of tickets are sold. With a jackpot game like PB or
Dec 20, 2007, 12:21 am - justxploring - Lottery Discussion Forum

NC Merry Millionaire Raffle
Ticket sales begin at 5:00am November 14th and will end when the last ticket has been sold or at 2:00am on December 27th, whichever comes first. The final drawing for winning numbers will be held on December 27th! Purchasing your ticket early will enable you to participate in our $10,000 Weekly Bonus Drawings! Tickets $20 Weekly Bonus Drawing dates: Two $10,000 winners per drawing NOVEMBER 21, 2007 NOVEMBER 28, 2007DECEMBER 5, 2007 DECEMBER 12, 2007 Good Luck
Nov 11, 2007, 6:14 pm - unclegum - Lottery Discussion Forum

Financial Planner? Here's one...Reply
Unless you make really bad choices you could expect to at least earn enough to turn your investment into 200 to 300k. That would be a more realistic expectation. Many people have said the first thing they would do after hitting a huge jackpot is contact a financial advisor but had they talked to Joe before buying their tickets, he would have suggested they would be better off investing that money and not play the lottery. Joe was comparing spending $10 a week on the lottery but if a pers
Oct 6, 2007, 4:16 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

A dollar and a dream true for PB and MM?Reply
Only one combination can win. That's true for MM and PB, but not all games, so why would you think that's the only factor in determing your odds? Take a look at the raffle games that have been offered lately. The odds of winning a top prize in those games is based on how many top prizes there are, but it's still about the proportion of tickets to winning combinations. In a typical raffle there may be 1 million combinations and 10 top prizes, for odds of 1 in 100,000. The odds would be exact
Sep 6, 2007, 1:47 am - KY Floyd - Jackpot Games Forum

DC Raffle Sales...Not Too Good!Reply
Todd EriciinMD asked in the OP what we thought of raffles. So I told him, sorry I didn't make something up that a state lottery selling raffle tickets could have used as a great marketing ploy, maybe downplay the fact that we're looking at a $20 shot to win $1 million as oppossed to a $1 shot to win tens or hundreds of millions. Numbers games don't limit lower tier prizes. The only way anyone can approach any form of gambling is to consider the money gone as soon as they turn it into
Aug 24, 2007, 5:34 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum