simonsez said:
Hey blitzed! Have been taking a break from lottery. Still working on little things here and there but it's time to regroup and time to take care of some other things this year.
I didn't hear about the raffle,what exactly is that all about? I've heard of other states doing that and am surprised CA is. Tell me more about it,thanks!
hiya simonsez, yup good to not neglect things. However, it is good to step away from the lottery stuff for a while...then come back at look at things fresh
CA Lottery just started sellin no-brainer sequentially numbered tickets for their CA raffle game today 05FEB.
There will be 5 drawings...first one on 17FEB, for ten $10k prizes. Then 3 more such drawings, and finally on 17MAR there will be another, but with five to ten $1mil prizes
So this one $5 ticket I bought today will be valid for each of the 5 drawings.
At worst on 17MAR, just this one ticket will have 5 chances in up to 5,000,000 to win $1mil, not bad...but I think it'll be 10 chances, since I think CA will likely sell all 5 million tickets.
Here is the link to the game on the CA lottery site:
http://www.calottery.com/Games/Raffle/
Raffle brochure:
http://www.calottery.com/NR/rdonlyres/4F506BB2-8CC0-4491-82F8-88A7C123213E/0/Raffle_How_To_Play.pdf
I'm still way ahead in Daily 3, and it is 12 days til 1st raffle draw...so I might spend a total of $60 buyin a ticket each day, to get a nice spread of 12 tickets.
My wife's birthday is actually on 17MAR (St. Patrick's Day) when they draw the $1mil prizes...so I'll let her test her leprechaun luck with a handful of tickets

I hate lookin for gifts, at least the raffle tickets will knock one gift down hah!
catchya later!
blitzed