150,000 tickets available statewide and more than $1.2 million in cash prizes
By Kate Northrop
The Holiday Millionaire Raffle is underway in Kansas, giving players in the state their best odds at winning $1 million before the end of the holiday season.
The Kansas Lottery's Holiday Millionaire Raffle has returned for another year, and it's brought with it a familiar lineup of cash prizes, multiple drawings, and the biggest early-buyer bonus the game has to offer.
At $20 per ticket, players can enter for a chance to win $1 million with a total of 150,000 tickets being printed. With a single Grand Prize, that's a 1 in 150,000 shot at a million-dollar chunk of cash.
Lottery players across the state of Maryland have collectively hit it big after one week of wins valued at $10,000 and more resulted in a massive total payout of $29.5 million.
The North Carolina Lottery has paid out exactly $1 million post-tax to a player who won a top prize in a game that factors in taxes to guarantee the million-dollar amount.
The British government is weighing a proposal to ban licensed betting operators from taking wagers on the outcome of the newly launched Powerball draw game in the United Kingdom.
The ex-Circle K manager embroiled in a legal battle over a $12.8 million Arizona Lottery jackpot-winning ticket has picked up an unexpected supporter: a former NFL player with alleged ties to the convenience store chain.
The Kentucky lottery winner of a $167 million Powerball jackpot continues to stack up those arrests, this time for public intoxication in a Walmart parking lot.
An audit of the North Carolina Lottery revealed that the state saw a slight decline in contributions to the education fund from last year, although the Lottery reported higher ticket sales.
The anonymous Maine lottery winner of a $1.3 billion Mega Millions wants to drop his lawsuit against the mother of his child after a judge warned that he would have to publicly disclose his identity in the court battle.
