Ohio Lottery's 20.00 New Year's Raffle

• Chesapeake

  

  Raffle Tickets go on sale November 20th and there are 500,000 available.
  
  Tickets will be sold in order from 000001 to 500000 this year.
  
  The drawing is January 2, 2010 at 7:30 pm.
  
  All winning numbers will be posted on the Ohio Lottery website at 9:00 pm the same night.
  
  Raffle Tickets are 20.00 each
  
  4 - $1 million prizes (Odds: 1 in 125,000)
  10 - $10,000 prizes (Odds: 1 in 50,000)
  120 - $1,500 prizes (Odds: 1 in 4,167)
  1000 - $500 prizes ( Odds: 1 in 500)
  2,200 - $100 prizes (Odds: 1 in 227)
  
  There are no instant 100.00 winners this year.
  
  http://www.ohiolottery.com/games/raffle/raffle09.html
• Chesapeake

  

  Just remember, I got 11 raffle tickets last year and came up empty handed.
  
  I learned it's nothing to get carried away with.
  
  I like the variety of prizes this year though.
• power i

  

  I will participate.
• George Costanza

  Can you buy them anywhere?
• thavoice

  I find it hard enough to justify purchasing a 5 dollar lotto ticket let alont a 20 dollar one.
• Chesapeake

  

  Picked up #027385 today around 3:30 pm.
• holy_buckeye

  haven't ever bought a lotto ticket. not that i frown upon the lottery..i just find a variety of other ways to piss my money away
• dubnine

  i did it last year, had 4 tickets, didn't win anything...and i'll get into it again this year. Probably a stupid decision but whatever i suppose...
• OSH

  

  I'll save my money. Like I always have with the lottery.
• Chesapeake

  

  dubnine wrote: i did it last year, had 4 tickets, didn't win anything...and i'll get into it again this year. Probably a stupid decision but whatever i suppose...

  I had 11 tickets last year and nothing.
  
  They removed the four 100,000.00 prizes this year and created several smaller prizes to increase odds.
  
  I still won't be running out and buying 11 raffle tickets again this year.
  
  I do have one so far and it's only Thanksgiving.
• HitsRus

  

  Big drop off between $1M and $10K, I would rather see some med. large prizes. $10K doesn't really change anyone's life...but $100K or $250 K does. People can pay off their mortgages, get out of debt or actually buy a car. Why not have have 1 less million dollar prize and and give out 7-10 $100-250K prizes? I'm a much bigger fan of giving more people better odds at winning a significant life changing prize, rather than showering just a few with a lot. People who win a HUGE sum are more likely to take their winnings and spend it out of state.
  Same way with the lotto games....once the lotto or the mega get over a large amount...say $50 million...take the overage and divide it among the second prize winners. Wouldn't it better to make 40 winners of $250K than to lavish an extra $10 million on the guy who just won $50 million?
  
  Of all the 'gimmicks' that the lottery has tried, never has anything like that been tried.
• Chesapeake

  

  George Costanza wrote: Can you buy them anywhere?

  At any Ohio Lottery retailer.
• jspitaleri

  

  I agree... after the payouts, there is $5 million left. Could have taken that and had four prizes of $250k and still had $4 million left. Oh well. I will play and I will lose, again!
• gerb131

  

  I got 2 last year and will be getting 2 this year as well.
• Con_Alma

  Thanks to everyone that helps the State budget!
• royal_k

  

  Buying 2 this year. Bought 1 last year.
• Chesapeake

  

  Got #246330 on Christmas Day a little after 3:00 pm.
  
  I now have two raffle tickets.
  
  #027385
  #246330
• GoPens

  

  I've got 2. They've sold just about half in nearly 2 months and have to sell the other half in less than a week? What will they do if they don't all sell?
• Emmett Brown

  

  I assume if they don't sell all of them, that our odds have just become a hell of a lot better. So If they only sell 250,000 then our odds are 1 in 62,500 of a million dollars. When is the last day to buy a ticket? January second
• ts1227

  

  I was filling in at a convenience store for a little extra money and they were at 233,000 or so on Chirstmas Eve. Since they were at 246,000 on Christmas according to Peake, you get a better idea of the pace they're going at.
• Chesapeake

  

  They really start selling after Christmas.
  
  It started on November 20th and they've sold a little over half of them so far.
  
  Between December 26th and January 2nd they'll sell around 200,000 more.
  
  The 2 day extension and prize changes didn't help much.
  
  Will still be 50,000 unsold as usual.
• joebaseball

  

  I picked one up last night around 7:45 and my number was almost 262,000.
• Chesapeake

  

  joebaseball wrote: I picked one up last night around 7:45 and my number was almost 262,000.

  So in 28 1/2 hours from 3:15 pm the 25th till 7:45 the 26th they sold about 15,000 tickets.
• mtrulz

  Piss on Ohio Lottery...it doesn't benefit anything.
• joebaseball

  

  mtrulz wrote: Piss on Ohio Lottery...it doesn't benefit anything.

  Please respond when you are old enough to buy a lottery ticket. j/k