For four lucky Ohio lottery players, 2010 will begin with a windfall of one million dollars.
The winning numbers for the Ohio Lottery's New Year's Raffle game were announced this evening. The full list of lottery results can be found on Lottery Post's Ohio Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/oh).
The $20 tickets for the raffle went on sale Nov. 20. 500,000 tickets were available.
This is the third consecutive New Year's Raffle for the Ohio Lottery. The game has "the best odds to win $1 million dollars," according to the game's official literature.
The odds of winning $1 million are 1 in 125,000.
In addition to the four top prizes of $1 million each, other cash prizes are available from $100 to $10,000.
- 4 prizes of $1,000,000 (odds 1 in 125,000)
- 10 prizes of $10,000 (odds in 50,000)
- 120 prizes of $1,500 (odds in 4,167)
- 1,000 prizes of $500 prize (odds 1 in 500)
- 2,200 prizes of $100 prize (odds 1 in 227)
Last year's instant prizes have been replaced this year with an increased number of lower-tier prizes available in the raffle drawing.
All prizes are lump-sum cash payments.
Winners of the top two prizes can redeem their prizes starting Monday, Jan. 4, 2009 at the Ohio Lottery office. Other winners can cash their winning tickets at lottery retailers starting Jan. 3.
Nope no winners for me.
They were sold from 1 to 500,000 this year. Unfortunately, no hits for me. I hope someone I bought one for hit.
I bought a ticket when I was in Ohio !........I had bought a raffle ticket for a Kentucky raffle a year or two ago...........(didn't win).......It certainly was more exciting to have one from Ohio.........My ticket number was 362352........(I was more excited getting a 20 dollar raffle ticket than getting a 20 dollar scratch off............)..........beaudad.......
Not sure where the news story came from but tickets were sold from 000001 to 500000, not in reverse order. Below were my numbers:
Ö137304
137305 - $500 WINNER!
137306
Ö137307
137308
Ö137309
Ö137310
Ö137311
137312
Ö137313
Ö137314
137315
Ö137316
137317
137318
Ö137319
Ö137320
137321
137322
Ö137323
137324
137325
137326
Ö137327
Ö137328
The ones with the check marks were my numbers! I tried playing the in a row but of course other people were buying them at the same time I was so the first number after mine was a $500 winner....at least it was 1 million or I would have just freaked! LOL!
Oh, one more thing. Hang on to your non-winning tickets because usually a couple of days after the drawing the Ohio Lottery will post to turn your non-winning tickets in to any Giant Eagle store to be eligible to win prizes from the store like a $500 gift card, free lottery tickets and free gas!
wow you were so close !!!!!!! very close !!!!!
I don't UnderStand, Seem Like they Draw Winners on Number not SOLD
The $20 tickets for the raffle went on sale Nov. 20. Of the 500,000 tickets that were available, all but about 38,000 were sold.
$10,000 Winners (10)
021850
$1,500 Winners (120)
000339 015345 016058 018029 018796 024083 025755 026830 027843 030524 037735
$500 Winners (1,000) 75
000822 001392 001708 001 864 002991 003086 003728 004571 004972 005456 005641 005968 006137 007092 007535 008461 009158 009241 009369 009448 009534 010175 010541 011430 011568 012029 013192 013869 014288 014301 015001 015939 016142 016449 016684 017385 017408 018325 018342 019360 019616 020382 020584 022546 023027 023460 023590 023961 024614 026594 026885 026938 027189 027617 027695 027777 029488 030155 031392 031459 031507 031724 031823 032028 032075 032839 033797 033937 035151 035528 035689 036032 036487 037280 037344
That's my fault, sorry. I was in a rush and I left the 38,000 part in there accidentally. I have updated the story to remove that remark.
I was wondering about that too because this year, the first ticket sold was ticket #500000. In the past when Ohio didn't sell out, they only drew from the tickets sold without a decrease in the prizes and I saw many winning tickets numbered below #038000.
come on up to michigan, we got a good raffle, if all the tickets aren't sold by the draw date , they extend the date until they are sold.
Have they ever just hold drawing anyway regardless? There are only 2 days left and 160,000 tix left. Was hoping for better odds. oh well
The worst thing a lottery could do is extending the drawing date or restructure the prize fund!
Especially when the raffles have a holiday theme. Players lose confidence in a lottery when a Christmas raffle is extended until Good Friday or a 4th of July raffle is extended to Labor Day. Ohio had to sell 250,000 raffle tickets to break even so even if they "only" sold 400,000 tickets, they would still made a nice profit. Making an announcement the drawing would be extended or the prize fund would be cut two days before the scheduled drawing date because they didn't make a big enough profit, would certainly be bad for business.
Some state lotteries have done that and paid out exactly what the advertised while others have extended drawing dates and/or restructured prize funds. If any state lottery can't sell half the tickets before the drawing date, somebody made a poor decision and should be fired. Once they cross the half way point and still decide to extend the date or reduce prizes, the entire lottery staff should be fired.
Well they wimp out and extend it to 1/20 with 150,000 tix left. I would rather see them do that and make some profit so there will be more raffle in the future. Of course I gonna be holding one of the winning mil dollar ticket so it would be a good send-off