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PA Lottery Millionaire Raffle Tickets Selling Briskly for July 7 Drawing

MIDDLETOWN, Pa., June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tickets for the Pennsylvania Lottery's July 7 Millionaire Raffle drawing are selling briskly, with fewer than 250,000 tickets still available as of 1 p.m. on June 18. The game offers 6,000 cash prizes totaling more than $5 million.

Sales of Millionaire Raffle tickets began May 4 and will continue until 5 p.m. on July 7, or until all 500,000 tickets are sold – whichever comes first. Tickets for the 13 previous Millionaire Raffles sold out before each drawing.

Winning Millionaire Raffle ticket numbers will be randomly selected at 6:59 p.m. on July 7, when the Lottery's live drawing show will televise the selection of four $1 million, top-prize raffle ticket numbers and four $100,000, second-prize raffle ticket numbers. The remaining 100 winning ticket numbers for prizes of $1,000 each and 5,892 winning ticket numbers for prizes of $100 each also will be selected, but will not be televised live due to time constraints. In total, 6,000 prizes worth $5,089,200 will be awarded.

A complete list of all 6,000 winning raffle ticket numbers will be available at Lottery retail locations and online at www.palottery.com.

About the Pennsylvania Lottery: The Pennsylvania Lottery remains the only state lottery that designates all its proceeds to programs that benefit older residents. Since its inception in 1971, the Pennsylvania Lottery has contributed nearly $21.5 billion to programs that include property tax and rent rebates; free transit and reduced-fare shared rides; the low-cost prescription drug programs PACE and PACENET; long-term living services; and the 52 Area Agencies on Aging, including full- and part-time senior centers throughout the state. The Pennsylvania Lottery reminds its players to play responsibly. Players must be 18 or older.

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Media contact: Allison Roberts , 717-702-8008

SOURCE Pennsylvania Lottery