BOISE – All 250,000 tickets within the Idaho Lottery’s conventional vacation recreation, the Idaho $1,000,000 Raffle have been bought and the sport has formally ended, stated lottery officers on Monday morning.
The 250,000th ticket was bought Saturday afternoon. Due partially to elevated participant exercise through the $2.0 billion Powerball jackpot run in late October by means of early November, over 200,000 tickets on this yr’s recreation had been bought within the first eighteen days of gross sales.
This yr’s recreation was the quickest promoting within the sixteen-year historical past of the Idaho $1,000,000 Raffle. It’s the fifteenth sellout and the second time the sport has bought out earlier than Thanksgiving, lasting solely 23 days in the marketplace.
“We thank our gamers and retail companions for once more making the Idaho Lottery’s annual Idaho $1,000,000 Raffle successful,” stated Jeff Anderson, Idaho Lottery Director. “Proper now, there’s a ticket on the market value a assured $1,000,000. All tickets have to be saved in a protected place till the profitable numbers are introduced proper after New Yr’s.”
The profitable numbers might be introduced on Wednesday, January 4, 2023 at 5:59 p.m. Mountain Time.
“Our gamers take pleasure in giving these tickets as presents through the holidays. This yr, they could possibly be gifting a ticket value a assured $1,000,000!” added Anderson.
Gamers can verify their tickets for profitable numbers at idaholottery.com, in any respect Idaho Lottery retail places, on the Idaho Lottery data hotline at 208-334-4656, or by utilizing the Idaho Lottery Test-a-Ticket app for his or her iPhone or Android telephone.
Moreover the assured prime prize of $1,000,000, there are over 15,000 extra prizes starting from $15 as much as $10,000. This yr’s recreation additionally featured ten, $1,000 prizes mid-game for gamers who bought one of many 25000th tickets. Additionally, there have been 15 day by day $1,000 winners through the first 15 days of gross sales. All gamers are inspired to verify their tickets for these promotion winners manually by visiting idaholottery.com.
All profitable tickets of $1,000 or larger on this recreation have to be claimed at Lottery places of work in Boise. Gamers may have 180 days after the draw announcement on January 4, 2023 to say their prizes.
This yr’s Idaho $1,000,000 Raffle generated over $900,000 for the Idaho Lottery’s beneficiaries, Idaho public colleges and buildings.
Throughout this present giving season, the Idaho Lottery wish to remind everybody to present Lottery tickets responsibly. You have to be 18 years previous to purchase, promote, or redeem Lottery merchandise in Idaho.