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
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!
86-year-old Mary Wollens of Toronto won the Ontario Lottery in September after dreaming of a large cheque and a lotto ticket. Although she already had one ticket, her dream inspired her to buy another and having a second ticket with the same numbers paid off because someone else had also correctly picked the same winning numbers so Mary was able to claim two-thirds of the $16 million dollar prize!
The New York Lottery’s latest raffle-style game, the Turkey Raffle, was drawn today, Thanksgiving Day, and made five instant millionaires.
New York’s Turkey Raffle is a raffle game offered by the New York Lottery, with a limited period of availability and a limited number of $10 tickets.
Tickets went on sale Nov. 3, and ticket sales were to stop Nov. 26 or earlier if the supply of tickets ran out.
The winning numbers were announced at 10:00 AM this morning, Nov. 27, 2008.
Each raffle ticket contains a unique, nine-digit number issued sequentially across the state from the Lottery’s central computer, starting with number 100000000.
