Lottery’s Millionaire Raffle Tickets On Sale Today

Tickets for the Pennsylvania Lottery’s 13th Millionaire Raffle, which offers 6,000 cash prizes totaling more than $5 million, go on sale Friday, Nov. 18.

“We encourage players to get their Millionaire Raffle tickets early,” said Lottery Executive Director Todd Rucci. “This game only happens twice a year, and with a limited number of tickets, players who wait too long may miss out on the best odds we offer at winning a $1 million prize.”

Each of the game’s $20 tickets offers a 1-in-125,000 chance of winning $1 million, the best odds ever offered by the Lottery for a $1 million prize. The overall odds of winning any prize are 1-in-83.33.

Tickets will be available until 5 p.m. on Dec. 31, or until sold out. Only 500,000 tickets will be sold, after which the game will close. Players should sign the backs of tickets promptly and keep them in a safe place until the Dec. 31 drawing.

Each raffle ticket will feature a unique, eight-digit number issued sequentially as tickets are sold across the state. The first ticket sold on Nov. 18 will feature 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 Dec. 31 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.