SACRAMENTO -- The California State Lottery launched its newest $5 Scratchers game on Monday, August 29, 2005, which gives away a $1 million cash prize to 15 players instantly. Players can also enter their non-winning tickets into a second chance drawing for another chance to win one of five, additional $1 million cash prizes. In total, twenty players will become millionaires!
Players can purchase the $5 “Next Millionaire” Scratchers ticket at one of the more than 18,000 retailer locations throughout California.
The “Next Millionaire” Scratchers game was launched to coincide with the Lottery’s 20-year anniversary and to celebrate its Best Year Ever for the fiscal year 2004/2005, in which every record was shattered including more than $3.3 billion in sales, $1.79 billion in prizes paid out, and an astonishing $1.17 billion given to California’s public education.