SACRAMENTO – How many chances do you want to be a Raffle winner? There’s still time to double your fun. The fourth and final preliminary draw of the Million Dollar Raffle for ten $10,000 prizes is tomorrow and the Grand Prize drawing on St. Patrick’s Day for up to ten $1 million prizes is only a week away. Get your Raffle tickets today for a chance to participate in both drawings!
Don’t wait until the last minute to buy your Million Dollar Raffle tickets if you want a shot at the best odds of winning a million bucks ever offered by a California Lottery game. There are a limited number of Raffle numbers still available but only for one more week or until sold out, whichever comes first. Plus, if you want the chance at winning two different times you’d better hurry because the next Raffle Preliminary Draw for ten $10,000 winners is taking place tomorrow, Saturday, March 10.
Hold on to those raffle tickets! If you’ve already got your Raffle numbers, hold onto them because you’re still eligible to win any of the next two draws, including the Grand Prize drawing for up to ten $1 million winners. If you haven’t checked your Raffle numbers yet to see if you might have already won $10,000 in one of the first three preliminary draws, visit: http://www.calottery.com/Games/Raffle.
Players need to purchase their Raffle tickets before 6:00 p.m. Saturday night to participate in the fourth and final preliminary draw for ten $10,000 winning numbers. The draw will be followed by the St. Patrick’s Day Grand Prize drawing for up to ten $1 million winners on March 17.
The Million Dollar Raffle is played just like other “raffle” style games. There are a maximum of five million unique seven digit Raffle numbers available for sale at $5 per number. Numbers will be sold in sequence and when all five million are gone, they’re gone. A minimum of seven Grand Prize winners of $1 million cash each will be drawn on St. Patrick’s Day. But, as sales grow, the number of $1 million Grand Prizes grows too! If all five million Raffle numbers are sold, ten $1 million Grand Prizes will be awarded. 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 approximately 19,000 Lottery retailers 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 $1.28 billion to public education in 2005-06 out of 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.