SACRAMENTO – Do you want to be part of the winning team? It’s Raffle Season and if you want to participate in the Million Dollar Raffle and have the chance at winning up to four different times, you’d better hurry because tickets are selling fast and the next preliminary draw for ten $10,000 winners is taking place tomorrow, Saturday, February 24, 2007.
And, if you’ve already got your Raffle numbers, don’t forget to hold onto them because you’re eligible to win any of the next four draws, including the Grand Prize drawing for up to ten $1 million winners on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17!
Lottery players, if you missed your chance to participate in the first preliminary draw held just last weekend, don’t despair, you’ve still got four more chances to win if you act fast. Players need to purchase their Raffle tickets before 6:00 p.m. tomorrow night to participate in the Million Dollar Raffle’s second preliminary draw for ten $10,000 winning numbers. For each of the next three Saturdays, February 24, March 3 and March 10, will feature preliminary drawings for ten $10,000 winning Raffle numbers. These three preliminary draws will be followed by the St. Patrick’s Day Grand Prize drawing for up to ten $1 million winners on March 17, 2007.
The Million Dollar Raffle offers the best odds of winning a million bucks ever offered by a California Lottery game and there are a limited number of tickets available and only for a limited time. Last weekend, ten winning Raffle numbers were selected, each worth $10,000, in the first preliminary draw.
Two members of the winning team this Raffle Season have come forward to claim their $10,000 prizes from the first draw. Lillian Ann Perry purchased her winning Raffle ticket in Los Angeles at T & J Market. Brian Parker also became part of the first winning team when he bought his ticket at Bubble Clean #2 in Fresno. Because previously purchased Raffle numbers, even winning ones, remain eligible to win subsequent draws these winners still have a chance to win in all of the remaining preliminary draws and the $1 million Grand Prize drawing.
If you haven’t checked your Raffle numbers yet to see if you too might have won, visit: http://www.calottery.com/Games/Raffle/WinningNumbers/.
If all five million Raffle numbers are sold, the odds of winning a $1 million Grand Prize are 1 in 500,000. All prizes will be paid at cash value (no annuitized prizes) and must be claimed within 180 days of the draw in which the prize was won. Million Dollar Raffle tickets are available at the 19,000 retail locations statewide. On draw days, tickets must be purchased before 6:00 p.m. to participate in that’s evening’s drawing.
Public education receives at least 34 cents of ever dollar players spent on Lottery products. The California Lottery contributed a record $1.28 billion to public education in 2005-06 out of historic sales of $3.58 billion, the sixth year in a row the Lottery has provided more than $1 billion in supplemental funding for education. Since its inception in 1985, the Lottery has contributed more than $18 billion to California schools.