12.03.2007
$6.5 Million Up for Grabs Between Now and the End of the Year! New Years Raffle Game From the California Lottery Offers the Best Odds Ever at a Million Dollars
SACRAMENTO – For the second time in its history, the California Lottery is offering a Million Dollar Raffle game. This time, it’s the New Year's Raffle and offers players the chance to win a total of $6.5 million in prizes. When the winning numbers are drawn on New Year's Eve 555 lucky people are guaranteed to walk away winners! Chances of winning the top prizes of $1 million are one in 130,000; the best odds ever offered by the California Lottery to win a million bucks. Odds of winning any prize are one in 1,171.
When the winning numbers are drawn on New Year's Eve, the Million Dollar Raffle will create 555 winners. Over $6.5 million in prizes will be given away on New Year's Eve; five grand prizes of $1 million each, 50 winners of $10,000 each and 500 winners of $2008 each!
Unlike typical lottery drawings, tickets available for the Raffle are limited, but 555 winners are guaranteed! Only 650,000 tickets will be available; each ticket includes five chances to win for only $20. Numbers will be sold in sequence and when all 650,000 Raffle tickets are gone, they’re gone! Tickets are on sale now at the over 19,000 Lottery retailers in the state and are available until December 30, 2007 or until sold out, whichever comes first.
Over 95 cents of every Lottery dollar is returned to the community in the form of contributions to education, prizes and retail commissions. The California Lottery contributes at least 34 cents of every dollar that players spend on Lottery products to public education and returns more than 50 percent of sales to players in the form of prizes. Since its inception in 1985, the Lottery has contributed more than $19.6 billion to California schools out of total sales of more than $53.25 billion. Retailers win too, earning $3.4 billion in compensation since 1985.