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2009 Christmas Raffle Season Enters Final Week

Jay — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:45:08 +0000

The 2009 Christmas Raffle season enters it’s final week today as organizations and state lottery associations across the country put marketing efforts into full swing trying to sell the remaining tickets.

We plan to bring you up to the minute coverage of the results as they roll in! I will be posting a schedule and some details about the larger raffles going on this season. There are some really exciting ones!

Virginia Lottery’s New Year’s Eve Raffle May Flop

Child Molestor wins $500,000 in Lottery Sponsored By Abuse Victims Group

Jay — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:27:04 +0000

The winner of the $500,000 state-wide Alaska lottery held to benefit sexual abuse victims is a convicted child molestor. Alec Ahsoak claimed his half million dollar prize on Saturday. He has been convicted of molesting at least 3 girls under the age of 13 over the past 20 years.

His victims have been quoted in the media as being “outraged”.

Phillip Brunelle Wins Combined $1M Off 2 Tickets On Same Day

Idaho Lottery Fumbles Powerball

Jay — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:33:29 +0000

As new rules and game features in the Powerball Lottery are being implemented this week, one state is already having upgrade issues. Idaho Lottery Officials have announced that a number of error tickets were printed after they performed the necessary upgrades on their own system:

“During the upgrade of Idaho’s Powerball game, operator error resulted in a small number of Powerball tickets being printed in error during a short period of time,” said Zeke Chemodurow, Idaho General Manager for Intralot, Inc., the Idaho Lottery’s lotto-systems provider. “The ticket information and the locations where they were printed at have been identified and that information has been provided to the lottery.”

Now the question is, did any other states make errors as a result of the upgrade?

Idaho Lottery New Year’s Eve Raffle is a Sell Out

Winning $45mil MegaMillions Lottery Ticket Sold in California

Jay — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:44:10 +0000

CA Lottery Officials have announced that someone that bought a Mega Millions Lottery ticket at a Pacific Beach 7-Eleven store beat the 1 in 175,000,000 odds and has won the $45 million jackpot. No Winners have stepped forward. Double check your tickets.

The winning ticket had the numbers 2, 11, 19, 21, and 34, as well Mega number 38.

Mega Millions jackpot increases to $96 million

Virginia Lottery’s New Year’s Eve Raffle Creates 4 Millionaires

Jay — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:38:03 +0000

Virginia Lottery’s annual raffle, the New year’s Millionare Raffle, took place on Wednesday and created 4 new millionaires. In total there were almost 500,000 tickets available. Along with the four top jackpots of $1 million, other payouts included 4 winners of $50,000 and 400 winners of $500. $1Mil Winning #’s: 074874 290601 307612 321990 Related posts:New York Lottery Turkey [...] Related posts:

New York Lottery Turkey Raffle Creates 5 Millionaires

Delaware Lottery’s New Year’s Eve Raffle Winning Numbers

Jay — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:54:02 +0000

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. Related posts:New Years Eve Raffle Ticket Sales in Delaware Falling Short Related posts:

New Years Eve Raffle Ticket Sales in Delaware Falling Short

Patricia Taylor wins $5 million in Georgia Lottery Scratch-off

Jay — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:42:27 +0000

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”.

Phillip Brunelle Wins Combined $1M Off 2 Tickets On Same Day

Florida Lottery’s New Year’s Eve Raffle Creates 9 Millionaires

Jay — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:25:36 +0000

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 Related posts:Virginia Lottery’s New Year’s [...] Related posts:

Virginia Lottery’s New Year’s Eve Raffle Creates 4 Millionaires

Idaho Lottery Raffle Winning Numbers

Jay — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:23:38 +0000

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 Related posts:Idaho Lottery New Year’s Eve Raffle is a Sell Out Related posts:

Idaho Lottery New Year’s Eve Raffle is a Sell Out

Lottery Winners Who Have Lost Everything

Jay — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:28:49 +0000

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!

George Smith and mother step forward as $15M lottery winners.