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PA LOTTERY'S MILLIONAIRE RAFFLE RETURNS WITH MORE THAN $5 MILLION IN PRIZES
April 22, 2009
MIDDLETOWN – Tickets for the Pennsylvania Lottery’s eighth Millionaire Raffle go on sale Monday, April 27. The raffle-style game will offer 6,000 cash prizes worth more than $5 million when winners are drawn at 7 p.m. on July 4.
From Monday, April 27, through and including Wednesday, May 6, the $20 Millionaire Raffle tickets will be available to players for $18.
“Lottery players embraced the five-day early-bird special we offered for the Jan. 3 Millionaire Raffle, so we decided to extend the special offer for 10 days this time,” said Lottery Executive Director Ed Trees. “The eighth installment of the raffle game still features the best odds ever offered by the Pennsylvania Lottery for winning a million dollars.”
Tickets will be available until 5 p.m. on July 4, or until sold out, whichever comes first. Only 500,000 tickets will be sold. When the last raffle ticket is issued, the game will close, and no additional tickets will be available.
Because Millionaire Raffle tickets are scheduled to be sold over 69 days, Trees urged players to promptly sign the backs of their tickets and keep them in a safe place until the drawing. Tickets for the seven previous Millionaire Raffles sold out before the drawing. The last Millionaire Raffle drawing was conducted Jan. 3.
Each of the game’s $20 tickets offers a 1-in-125,000 chance of winning $1 million. The new Millionaire Raffle drawing will award four top prizes of $1 million cash; four $100,000 cash prizes; 100 prizes of $1,000 cash; and 5,892 prizes of $100 cash. A total of 6,000 prizes worth $5,089,200 will be awarded.
Each raffle ticket will contain a unique, eight-digit number issued sequentially across the commonwealth from the Lottery’s central computer, starting with number 00000001. The final raffle ticket issued for the game will contain the raffle ticket number 00500000. To be considered a winning ticket, the number printed on it must match the raffle number combination selected in the drawing -- in the exact sequence in which it was selected.
The winning raffle ticket numbers will be randomly selected at 7 p.m. on July 4 when the Lottery’s live drawing show will televise the selection of the four, $1 million, top-prize raffle ticket numbers and the four, $100,000, second-prize raffle ticket numbers. The remaining 5,992 winning ticket numbers also will be selected, but will not be televised live due to time constraints.
Odds of winning a $1,000 prize are 1-in-5,000 and the odds of winning $100 are 1-in-85. The overall odds of winning any prize are 1-in-83.
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