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
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”.
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!
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.
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 
Virginia lottery officals are praying in the streets that there is some sort of late miracle surge in tickets for this years New Years Eve Raffle. So far, lottery officials say they have not even sold 1/2 of their goal of 400,000+ tickets. Lottery officials stated they needed to sell 300,000 tickets tickets to break even, and had sold around 190,000 tickets so far.
The last New Years Eve Raffle Virgina held in 2007 sold out 8 hours before the drawing.
A single individual has won the Enormous Mega Millions Jackpot. The winner was from Ohio. No other details have been released.
There were no lucky winners for the Mega Millions lottery jackpot Tuesday night. Lottery officials said that over 900,000 prizes were won, however, the jackpot was rolled over from $128mil to $146mil. With this jackpot closing in on $150mil lottery sales are expected to be extremely heavy for Friday night’s 11PM EST drawing.
Tuesday’s winning numbers were: 2, 17, 22, 32, 51 and the Mega Ball number was 35.
This bartender waited 6 months to claim his $1mil lottery prize from a scratch off new york stat lotto ticket. Who wins the lottery and waits 6 months to pick up their prize?? This guy must really be rich or smoking a copious amount of marijuana to wait that long. Was he torturing himself every single day thinking about crazy ways that $ could just disappear and no one would ever believe he actually won the lottery (like someone stealing the ticket or his house burning down).
I guess we will never know. I hope he has fun with all that money.
You’re running out of time to make second-chance entries on four Florida Lottery scratch-off games. The drawings are Tuesday, but the entry deadline for the three football-related contests is midnight Saturday.
Losing Big Riches tickets are eligible for the Florida Gators drawing, $50 Grand for the FSU Seminoles drawing and Lucky 7′s for the Miami Hurricanes drawings. All are $5 tickets. There are three prizes for the FSU and Miami contests, but just two for the Gators.
Grand prize for each is a trip to the school’s bowl game. For Miami and FSU, second prize involves season tickets and third prize includes four tickets to one game next year. For the Gators, second prize is a tailgate party (or the items you need for one), but no tickets.
Deadline for entering losing $10 Winner Wonderland tickets is midnight Monday. Grand prize winners get two nights at the hotel at the Florida Mall and a $5,000 Florida Mall shopping spree along with some other goodies. Second prize winners get $1,000 gift cards to the mall and third prize winners get $500 gift cards.
