The very last raffle ticket I purchased was the winner. (whew!) 😅
Congrats! Hopefully you came out ahead or at least played for free. The pool I'm in bought 8 tickets. We came within 241 ticket numbers of winning $1,000 with one of them. The $1,000 winning ticket was very likely sold a few hours after we bought ours.
The PA Millionaire Raffle is definitely great but there is a small downside to it. Ticket number 00127141 won a million bucks. How'd you like to be holding ticket number 00127140 or 00127142??
I'd never want to know what that feels like. Right now, there might be as many as 8 people feeling pretty bad because of that. Not to mention it's happened in every single one of the 31 raffles PA has held. But that aint ever stopped me from buying a ticket or two. G5
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Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Jan 10, 2022
Congrats! Hopefully you came out ahead or at least played for free. The pool I'm in bought 8 tickets. We came within 241 ticket numbers of winning $1,000 with one of them. The $1,000 winning ticket was very likely sold a few hours after we bought ours.
The PA Millionaire Raffle is definitely great but there is a small downside to it. Ticket number 00127141 won a million bucks. How'd you like to be holding ticket number 00127140 or 00127142??
I'd never want to know what that feels like. Right now, there might be as many as 8 people feeling pretty bad because of that. Not to mention it's happened in every single one of the 31 raffles PA has held. But that aint ever stopped me from buying a ticket or two. G5
And there is something else that could make a player feel even worse if he or she held a "one number off" winning ticket.
It's very possible that a player could be holding TWO one-off's. (They could be holding the number immediately prior to the winning number and the number immediately after the winning number.)
Tickets numbers are generated sequentially and printed on the ticket at the time the ticket is sold. The day tickets go on sale, the very first ticket sold is 00000001. On the day that the very last ticket is sold it will be assigned a number of 00500000. If someone else in Pennsylvania is buying a ticket at the same time you are, and you are buying a string of ten tickets, there is no guarantee that you will receive ten consecutive ticket numbers. Your string of ten numbers could be interrupted, and the number that's missing from your string went to the other person buying a ticket elsewhere in Pennsylvania. What if the guy buying a ticket at the same time you were won a million bucks with his ticket??
You could get ticket numbers 00100110, 00100111, 00100112, 00100114 and the other guy got 00100113 which won the million dollar prize.
Has something like that ever happened with the 31 raffles PA has held? Who knows! Only the guy that it happened to would be aware of it.The timestamp on his string of tickets would be only seconds different from the timestamp on the winning ticket.G5