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More than Half of Millionaire Raffle Tickets Have Been Sold for December 29 Drawing
MIDDLETOWN — More than half of the Pennsylvania Lottery(palottery)’s Millionaire Raffle tickets have been sold for the Dec. 29 drawing. Only 308,335 tickets remained as of Dec. 9.
The raffle-style game will offer 8,000 cash prizes worth more than $6.4 million when winners are drawn at 7 p.m. on Dec. 29. Sales of Millionaire Raffle tickets began Nov. 9 and are to continue until 5 p.m. on Dec. 29, or until all 625,000 tickets are sold, which ever comes first.
“Players continue to respond positively to our raffle games, and tickets for the Dec. 29 drawing make great holiday gifts for anyone 18 years of age or older,” said Lottery(palottery) Executive Director Ed Trees. “More than half of the tickets available for this game have sold in just four weeks, and with three weeks until the drawing, we expect the remaining tickets to sell quickly.”
Each of the game’s $20 tickets offers a 1-in-125,000 chance of winning $1 million – the best odds ever offered by the Pennsylvania Lottery(palottery) for winning a million dollars. The Dec. 29 Millionaire Raffle drawing will award five top prizes of $1 million cash; five $100,000 cash prizes; 200 prizes of $1,000 cash; and 7,790 prizes of $100 cash. A total of 8,000 prizes worth $6,479,000 will be awarded.
The winning raffle ticket numbers will be randomly selected at 7 p.m. on Dec. 29 when the Lottery(palottery)’s live drawing show will televise the selection of the five $1 million top-prize numbers and the five $100,000 second-prize numbers. The remaining 7,990 winning numbers for third and fourth prizes also will be selected, but will not be televised due to time constraints. A complete list of all 8,000 winning raffle ticket numbers will be available the following day on www.palottery.com and at Lottery retailers.
Trees reminded Millionaire Raffle players to sign the back of each ticket and keep tickets in a safe place until the Dec. 29 drawing. To be considered a winning ticket, the eight-digit number printed on Millionaire Raffle tickets must match the eight-digit combination selected in the drawing, in the exact sequence in which it was selected.
Odds of winning a $1 million top prize are 1-in-125,000; odds of winning a $100,000 prize are 1-in-125,000; odds of winning a $1,000 prize are 1-in-3,125; and the odds of winning $100 are 1-in-80. The overall odds of winning any prize are 1-in-78(palottery).
To date, one $100,000 prize remains unclaimed from the Dec. 30, 2006, Millionaire Raffle drawing. That ticket expires Dec. 31, 2007 (palottery).