PA Lottery's Millionaire Raffle Returns With More Than $5 Million in Prizes

Limited Number of Tickets Go on Sale Today for July 10 Drawing

MIDDLETOWN, Pa., May 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tickets for the Pennsylvania Lottery's 10th Millionaire Raffle go on sale today. The raffle-style game will offer 6,000 cash prizes worth more than $5 million when winners are drawn at 6:59 p.m. on July 10.

"The raffle game again features the best odds offered by the Pennsylvania Lottery for winning a million dollars," said Lottery Executive Director Ed Trees, noting that each of the game's $20 tickets offers a 1-in-125,000 chance of winning $1 million.

Tickets will be available until 5 p.m. on July 10, or until sold out. Only 500,000 tickets will be sold. When the last raffle ticket is issued, the game will close, and no additional tickets will be available.

Tickets for the nine previous Millionaire Raffles sold out before the drawing. The last Millionaire Raffle drawing was held on Jan. 2.

Because Millionaire Raffle tickets are scheduled to be sold over 58 days, Trees urged players to sign the backs of their tickets promptly and keep them in a safe place until the drawing.

Each raffle ticket will contain a unique, eight-digit number issued sequentially across the state from the Lottery's central computer, starting with number 00000001. The final raffle ticket issued for the game will contain the raffle ticket number 00500000. To be considered a winning ticket, the number printed on it must exactly match the raffle number combination selected in the drawing – in the same sequence in which it was selected.

The Millionaire Raffle drawing will award four top prizes of $1 million cash; four $100,000 cash prizes; 100 prizes of $1,000 cash; and 5,892 prizes of $100 cash. A total of 6,000 prizes worth $5,089,200 will be awarded.

Winning raffle ticket numbers will be randomly selected at 6:59 p.m. on July 10 when the Lottery's live drawing show will televise the selection of the four $1 million, top-prize raffle ticket numbers and the four $100,000, second-prize raffle ticket numbers. The remaining 5,992 winning ticket numbers also will be selected, but will not be televised live due to time constraints.

Odds of winning a $1,000 prize are 1-in-5,000, and the odds of winning $100 are 1-in-84.86. The overall odds of winning any prize are 1-in-83.33.

The first Millionaire Raffle drawing was held Dec. 31, 2005.  

About the Pennsylvania Lottery: The Pennsylvania Lottery remains the only state lottery that designates all its proceeds to fund programs that benefit older residents. Since its inception 38 years ago, the Pennsylvania Lottery has contributed more than $19.2 billion to programs that include property tax and rent rebates; free and reduced-fare transit; the low-cost prescription drug programs PACE and PACENET; long-term living services; and the 52 Area Agencies on Aging, including more than 600 full- and part-time senior centers throughout the state. The Pennsylvania Lottery reminds its players to play responsibly. Players must be 18 or older.

For more information on the Pennsylvania Lottery, visit www.palottery.com.

Media contact: Veronica Sinclair-Anderson, 717-702-8008

SOURCE Pennsylvania Lottery