Delware Lottery Officials have drawn the winning numbers for this year’s New Year’s Eve Raffle. This year marks Delaware Lottery’s third annual Raffle game. Odds 1 : 191
Grand Prize winning number ($250,000) is 00012370.
$25,000 prizes are 00006502, 00018933, 00043080, 00071835, and 00075141.
Today Georgia Lottery officials awarded Patricia Taylor with a check for $5million. Talk about a Merry Christmas and a happy new year. Patricia hit the jackpot when she scratched a Millionaire Extravaganza instant ticket at Petro Food Mart, in McDonough, Ga. The Georgia Lottery has offered this mega jackpot instant scratch off game for the past 15 years during the holiday season.
Taylor said she felt “lucky” and “had no immediate plans”.
The first 9 tickets of the 1031 drawn in the Florida Lottery’s 4th Annual New Year’s Eve Holiday Raffle were each awarded $1mil. The Florida Lottery will also award 10 prizes of $50,000, 12 prizes of $5,000 and 1,000 prizes of $500.
Winning numbers will be posted by 3PM today on floridalottery.com
The Idaho Lottery’s First NYE Raffle went off without a hitch.
Here are the winning numbers just posted:
$1 Mil Prize: #002655
$25K Prizes: 132983 122619 092966 006658
Winning the lottery can get you killed, divorced, shunned from your family, and a permanent address living in a van down by the river. I just finished reading an artile called “8 lottery winners who lost their millions” and it made me realize maybe the truely lucky lotto players are those who never win!
The last $10.00 ticket of the allotted 250,000 has been sold in the Idaho Lottery New Year’s Eve Raffle. The drawing will take place 1 minute before 10pm on Tuesday with a top prize of $1mil , four $15k prizes, 500 $300.00 prizes, and 150 $100.00 prizes.
Lottery officials said ticket purchase rates were topping 1000/hour before the last one was bought.
We’re hearing it everywhere, Lottery sales are finally starting to fall into a rut as the economy’s deathgrip tightens on players. New York has bucked the trend, mainly because of the 12% increase in Video Lotto revenue. On average, most states are posting a 2% decline in lottery sales but New York is posting a 3% increase because of slot-machine like lottery machines the state deployed at raceracks and other gambling facilities.
Over the past 8 months, the New York Lottery has generated approximately $709mil (vs $636mil same period last year) from it’s 8 video parlors. A large amount of this gameplay can be contributed to less people travelling to Atlantic City and other gambling Mecas do to the tightening economy. The same folks that used to load up the car and drive 6 hours to go to a casino now just drive down the street to pull the Lottery Slot Machine Lever, keeping the money inside the state.
Last year, the New York Lottery generated $2.6 billion. This amount accounted for 13% of the NY School Systems operating budgets.
Rhode Island’s state lottery is getting in on the New Year’s Eve Raffle craze this year, offering a top prize of $1mil, 10 prizes for $10k, 100 prizes for $500, and 500 prizes for $100.00. Each raffle ticket costs $20.00. There is a 1 in 120,000 chance to win the million. …read more.
This Sunday will be the first time in Powerball’s 16 year history that Florida residence could buy the tickets in their own state. Florida lottery officials explained there had been a long term debate raging on if allowing Powerball ticket sales would draw away from Florida’s own state lottery.
Florida will now be the largest state offering Powerball tickets. Some experts predict a “lotto fever” as initial sales will quickly boost the Powerball Jackpot, which is already close to $80mil. Recently announced changes to the Powerball Game should also increase interest over the short-term in the 29 other states that already sell Powerball Lotto tickets.
The powerball is ushering in the New Year with a huge jackpot for Wednesday night’s drawing. I’m glad to see we get one last mega jackpot out of the Powerball before new game changes take affect January 7th 2009.
The changes include $20mil base grand prize minimum, odds of winning any prize have increase about 1/2%. The location where the PowerBall drawing takes place is also moving to Floriday. Stay tuned for more changes as they are announced, and play this current jackpot for all it’s worth. Maybe you’ll get some New Year’s Eve luck 
