Millionaire Raffle Tickets Selling Fast; Fewer than 250,000 Remain
July 6 Drawing Offers PA Lottery’s Best Odds of Winning $1 Million
Middletown – After reaching the half-sold point at 7 a.m. today, fewer than 250,000 tickets remain for the Pennsylvania Lottery’s July 6 Millionaire Raffle drawing. The game offers the Lottery’s best odds for winning a million-dollar prize.
Each $20 Millionaire Raffle ticket offers a 1-in-125,000 chance of winning $1 million. There are four top prizes of that amount.
In all, Millionaire Raffle offers 6,000 cash prizes totaling more than $5 million. The overall odds of winning any prize are 1-in-83.33.
“We want to alert players who may be waiting to buy a ticket that only a limited number are still available, and we ask them to please play responsibly,” said Lottery Executive Director Todd Rucci. “This is our 16th Millionaire Raffle game and every one of our past Raffle games has sold out before the drawing date.”
Tickets will be available until 5 p.m. on Saturday, July 6, or until sold out. Only 500,000 tickets will be sold, after which the game will close. Players should sign the back of all tickets promptly and keep them in a secure place until the drawing.
Each raffle ticket features a unique, eight-digit number issued sequentially as tickets are sold across the state. The first ticket sold on April 26 featured number 00000001, and the final raffle ticket for the game will feature number 00500000.
To be considered a winning ticket, the number on a Millionaire Raffle ticket must exactly match a winning number selected in the raffle drawing, and all digits must appear in the same sequence as the winning number.
Winning Millionaire Raffle ticket numbers will be randomly selected at 6:59 p.m. on July 6. 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.
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 more than $22.6 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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