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Scotland family celebrates third big lottery prizeNews Story
By Todd Northrop An elderly couple from Scotland are celebrating a 1 million (US$1.5 million) lottery payout that continues an amazing family run of Lotto luck. Peter Fry, 90, and his wife Mary, 86, landed the huge prize in the Lotto Millionaire Raffle and have been hailed as Scotland's luckiest family. The couple, from Bo'ness, West Lothian, shared the win with their three daughters, Margaret, 64, Janet, 59, and Isobel, 57. The family play together, purchasing five lines twice a week,
May 31, 2016, 8:43 am - Todd - Lottery News

KA-BOOM! 4th of July PA Millionaire Raffle! It's On!Reply
BTW that 18 wheeler sittin' on top of that 100 foot high billboard is still there. Big wind comes along, that sucker might fly away! It's at some kinda truck discount center.. Get yourself a used 18 wheeler real cheap! EZ Credit! You ARE Approved already it says on the side of that tractor trailer way up there. It's in Shippensberg Pa. The wife bought my tickets while I was puttin' gas in the car. She comes out and says to me; I got ya 3 separate tickets. I say; You didn't have any choice ab
May 30, 2016, 8:44 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Take5 NYReply
That was a short retirement Minkski.... In Fredricksburg Va headed to Myrtle Beach where The Weather Channel says the weather will be lousy all week. Lousy weather or not, I'm jumpin' on Palmetto Cash5 when we pull into Myrtle. Today, before we leave, I'm goin' into that Wegman's across the street and gettin' me some of Va's Bank a Million. Stopped in Harrisburg Pa and bought 3 Millionaire Raffle tix. Those are for pool I run at work. Gonna stop and buy some more on the way back home next
May 30, 2016, 8:35 am - GiveFive - Pick 5 Forum

KA-BOOM! 4th of July PA Millionaire Raffle! It's On!Reply
Far as I'm aware, there's no change in the policy. First name, initial of last name, and county (or state, if outside of PA) of the winner is supposed to be published. PA Lottery reports large winners of other numbers and instant games in a timely manner. The raffle winners page is likely not being updated due to simple neglect - lack of time and care. Makes one wonder what else is being neglected ... RNG equipment, draw security, personnel integrity, etc. While it's unlikely, the lack of tim
May 7, 2016, 10:58 pm - Ron5995 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Pennsylvania: 3/1 - 3/31/2016Reply
070 !!! the 00s come in and the one I wanted too! got it ss x5! now let's see if my raffle tickets win anything lol
Mar 19, 2016, 7:14 pm - Chris$ - Pick 3 Forum

Post your scratch ticket resultsReply
zipped on two $30 Extreme Green tickets in a row. Tickets 002 and 003 both lost..... I think that about does it for me until the new tickets come out. I did pick up a $20 Millionaire raffle ticket earlier with the first losing $30 Extreme Green. Good luck guys.
Mar 4, 2016, 5:16 pm - GetReal720 - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Retired snow plow driver wins Montana Millionaire raffleNews Story
Jack Barisich, an 86-year-old retired snow plow driver with the Montana Department of Transportation living in Winnett, Montana, has claimed the grand prize in the Montana Millionaire lottery drawing. A press release from the Montana Lottery says that Barisich got the winning ticket as a gift from Stacie Schissler of Great Falls, a relative of his son's. Schissler bought the ticket at the Pit Stop in Black Eagle. She told Lottery officials that it's not her usual place to buy tickets, but
Jan 21, 2016, 5:06 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Question Regarding The Odds of The Pennsylvania Millionaire RaffleReply
PA didn't have a Halloween raffle in 2014 but you're right in that not all have sold out (I believe up until they offered more than 1 per year they did all sell out). The one this past October only sold 356,904 tickets. The ones offered this year seem to have better padding built into the timeframe that tickets are made available. As I stated earlier you can determine the probability of there being a winner based on tickets sold by simply using a hypergeometric distribution which unsurprising
Jan 17, 2016, 5:42 pm - LottoMetro - Lottery Discussion Forum

Question Regarding The Odds of The Pennsylvania Millionaire RaffleReply
Not sure a simulation is useful unless you believe the sales follow a specific distribution and/or will be less than the maximum allowed tickets. According to PA lottery records, all past Millionaire Raffle drawings have sold out, which pretty much satisfies the advertised odds. As the simulation approaches infinity it will converge on the theoretical (advertised) probabilities. Just for kicks I ran a simulation of about 2.5 M trials using a beta distribution* with range of sales from 300k to
Jan 16, 2016, 8:19 pm - LottoMetro - Lottery Discussion Forum

Question Regarding The Odds of The Pennsylvania Millionaire RaffleReply
Couldn't agree more. Yes, it's a raffle, so 4 out of 500,000 tickets are guaranteed to win $1,000,000. So that's 4/500,000 or 0.000002%. And if you reduce 4/500,000 to it's least common denominator of 1/125,000 that's also 0.000002%. So technically, the odds can be stated as 1/125,000. And that's why the PA Lottery can advertise odds of 1/125,000. But as can be seen in JADE's posts above, the odds are really 1 : 499,999, 1 : 499,998 etc. But if they advertised the odds in that particular f
Jan 16, 2016, 2:13 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum