Will Michigan ditch the Super Raffle?

So I’m sitting here after spending 40 bucks on the Raffle….when will the next raffle come out? I’m curious how it will work out since it rotates Millionaire Raffle then Super Raffle. Will Michigan finally ditch the Super Raffle?
The reason I’m thinking this is that not only did it have very bad sale records, but they had to extend the drawing date an extra week plus because of low sales. For 50 bucks a ticket, I’m not sure whether or not that’d be a great idea to do. Will I buy a ticket buy a ticket? Of course, I always buy the latest and greatest ticket available! I have been lacking in scratch and win tickets, or should I say, Scratch and Lose tickets because there is no hope like there is with the mega millions and the like. You buy it, you get it, you lose. All within a few seconds.

Winning Numbers

June 27, 2008

Daily 3
Midday - 821
Evening - 812

Daily 4
Midday - 4140
Evening - 6949

Fantasy 5 - 07 12 22 33 34

Mega Millions - 08 14 22 39 50 44

A new beginning coming

With the Raffle drawing around the corner on Monday a thought came to mind. If bought far apart, could one person possibly win 2 of the million dollar prizes? The odds for it happening are so far and out there it’s about as likely as winning the actual mega millions. However, I bought my tickets so far apart that it seems that I may have a chance. A very very slim chance, but a chance nonetheless. Will I win? Odds are against me, I’ve bought tickets far apart before and won absolutely NOTHING. I’ve also had people email me as well as comment on this blog saying they played the actual odds of winning and STILL won nothing. That right there just kinda cheese me off, since the odds aren’t there and are of course wrong. But its the closest way to determined what actually can be won. I’m hoping for at least 100 bucks after laying down 38 bucks for the tickets. If I win anything more then that, I’ll be on cloud 9.

June 18th Winning Numbers

Classic Lotto - 11 17 25 36 42 13

June 20th, Winning Numbers

Daily 3
Midday - 912
Evening - 451

Daily 4
Midday - 5053
Evening - 7478

Fantasy 5 - 02 05 17 26 37

Mega Millions - 11 17 25 36 42 + Mega Ball 13

New Blog Logo

This place finally got an upgrade with it’s own personal logo!

The good man himself Cliff Nowicki over at www.cliffnowicki.com created a personal logo to by pass all the plain jane stuff that we have right now. Sound familiar? Well it’s me of course, and I felt that this place needed a quick something to distinguish itself. I’ve had it sitting around for months before I realized that it was finally time to put it up on the site.

I’ve also been trying some other money making ideas, but have yet to figure it out with all that stuff. I’ll be making a book/dvd page and go through the amazon area and hopefully if your into buying lottery stuff you can do it through there and I can get a little commission on that. I’ll announce that as soon as it becomes available so you can get your hands on some cool lottery stuff that you may not have known.

Onto the winning numbers from Saturday June 15, 2008

Daily 3
Midday- 466
Evening- 867

Daily 4
Midday- 8671
Evening - 9241

Classic Lotto - 06 16 18 28 38 42

Fantasy 5 - 07 13 17 33 34

More Lottery talkage

I finally cashed in those Fantasy 5 tickets today to get some more Fantasy 5 tickets along with a Classic Lotto ticket. Will I win the big one tonight? I dunno, I just might. I’m still waiting on the Michigan Raffle that only has 75k tickets left to go! Get buying those tickets people otherwise they’ll cut it off completely. Would that be a good thing? If I personally don’t win anything, I would think it’s a good thing. If they still kept it around however, I’d still chip in my money to get it when it comes out.

The winning numbers for today

Fantasy 5 : June 10, 2008 - 11 13 19 31 39

Daily 3 - Midday Draw - 591

Evening Draw - 658

Daily 4 - Midday Draw - 7310

Evening Draw - 0642

Keno - 01 09 10 11 14 15
18 20 21 24 27 35
43 47 48 51 57 62
68 70 75 77

The NEW Michigan Millionaire Raffle on sale

That’s right folks ! The latest raffle is on sale right now! Whats better then a $20 chance to win a million bucks? Well multiple reasons now! With the new raffle here’s what to expect, straight from www.michigan.gov/lottery

The Lottery’s Millionaire Raffle is back!  A limited number of tickets, only 600,000, will be sold at all Lottery terminals across Michigan beginning May 5, 2008.  Each ticket sold will contain a unique six-digit number from 000001 to 600000.  In a single drawing scheduled for no earlier than June 23, 2008, 6,018 raffle tickets will be randomly selected to win the following great prizes:

Prize	Odds of Winning
6 grand prizes of $1,000,000 each (annuitized over 20 years*)	1:100,000
12 prizes of $100,000 each	1:50,000
2000 prizes of $500 each	1:300
4000 prizes of $100 each	1:150
Overall: 1:100

That’s the just of it! A great chance to win at least a 100 bucks!! Well not a great chance, but hey! The more the merrier. I picked up the discounted ticket for a mere 18 bucks which led way to an unexpected 2 bucks to play towards the classic and mega millions! This thing keeps on giving! OF course I got the fantasy 5 since I had the extra 2 bucks.

GET YOURS NOW!

Super Raffle Sold Out!……finally

The Super Raffle has been soldout today. The drawing date will be determined October 15th on whether or not it will be October 22nd or sooner. Lets hope for the sooner to make the masses happy!

With that good news comes even more. The next Millionaire Raffle will begin November 19th just in time for Christmas. The tickets will run for 20 bucks a pop and hopefully will be sold out fast in time to buy presents for Christmas. This pleases me very much! Can’t wait for the Super Raffle to be done and over with and get some money hopefully!

4 people win the 330 Million Mega Millions jackpot!

It was tough to see people win the jackpot, especially after 4 different people won it. I am a little shocked to read a report of it on abc news website via yahoo.  Entitled ” $330 Million dollar jackpot split not so mega”, the story goes on to say how the winners will be depressed because they can’t buy 100+ million dollar houses or 90 some million dollar gulf stream’s or near 100 mill worth of art. After taxes each person is entitled to a lump sum of 48.6 million dollars. I mean seriously what the fuck were they thinking? Are they assuming all jackpot winners are over spending assholes that blow their money like it was nothing?  The part that really got me was the suggestion that they at least have 35 million dollars to go to the moon and have 12 million left over. It’s sad to see a news site print this rubbish and assume all winners are morons with their money.

Here’s a news flash. Not 100% of the people that win the lottery are morons with their money. If someone is depressed they only won  48.6 million dollars, then odds are money isn’t what makes them happy. The things that could be done with 48.6 million dollars is incredible!! Anybody in their right mind that’s been working all their lives and are reasonalble people will think even a quarter of that is a God send and will be happy for every last dime! I’m still excited as hell to win anything! I may have only won 3 bucks from that lottery but I’d be happy if I broke even. The old saying goes, If someone gave you 10 dollars and your friend next to you 100 bucks….would you be happy you got at least something or would you be pissed off someone got more then you?

ABC news seems to have stereotyped lottery winners as money hungry idiots that blow through there money like it was no tomorrow and go broke by the time they hit the 3rd year. Has it happened? Of course it has! There’s been documentaries about this kind of thing that look through the lives of people. Well another news flash, every last person in those documentaries are not the only people who have won jackpots. Basing your opinions off a documentary with the bad part of the lottery is just ignorant. I hope ABC news has future lottery stories that aren’t ignorant. After all, they are professionals!

Winning numbers

Winning numbers for the 250 Million prize:

Tue. 08/28/07

37 40 48 53 56 44

Next Drawing:
Fri. 08/31/07
Estimated Jackpot:
$325 million

 

As you can see, the next drawing will be worth 325 mill meaning nobody won that 250 mill prize! Isn’t that great? Still a great chance to win some big big money!

Getting it straight

I hear it on many comments, emails and all sorts of other to do’s about this blog on playing the lottery. The most common misconception I get is that I truly believe that winning the lottery is the best way to secure a financial future. Another one is that I think I WILL win the lottery one day.

Well it’s time to get things straight. The entire reason I started this blog was back in the beginning of the year when people have told me that it’s a waste to buy lottery tickets. Last year I played a majority of the year and tallied about 17 bucks in profit.  I had no concrete proof of it or anything. So what better way to see the proof as to buying actual lottery tickets each time the Mega Millions game is played on Tuesdays and Fridays. Yes, I do realize it’s all random and it won’t be the same for anybody else.

I named it Project Lottery Life. At the end of a full year I will give my results along with a whole bunch of stats and what not. I plan on making it into a book as well and hopefully get it published. Will I get exposure for this? Maybe, maybe not but I’ll know once and for all what odds are for playing every single time for a full year.  That’s the full point of this project when it was first started.

I write about the idea of winning the lottery along with anything else in my mind that pops up and has to do with the lottery. I talk about what I’d do if I won the lottery in certain situations and what I wish I had if I won the lottery. If it comes off that I actually won the lottery then your wrong. I know I dont’ have any good chance of winning the lottery and I’m well aware that I may never ever win the lottery. However, I have fun with the idea of winning the Mega Millions. I try to support the lottery in the good ole state of Michigan and any of the other states that offer the Mega Millions. Why do I do this? Because I like the idea of the jackpot growing every time and I love the idle chit chat with people on the streets on what their idea of living the life would be if they won the lottery.

So that is what it’s all about!

Dont’ forget to buy your tickets for tonights 65 million dollar jackpot this lovely July 31st.

Super Raffle Part 2

God bless those people at the lottery commission for coming up with the next Raffle game. The next raffle game will be the 2nd Super Raffle. In which the tickets cost 50 bucks and the odds to win are the best! From michigan.gov/lottery

“The Super Raffle, which is the fifth Raffle game offered by the Lottery, offers odds of 1 in 125,000 of winning $2 million. Odds of winning $100,000 are 1 in 10,000 and of winning $500, 1 in 56.”

Its coming people!! Grab your 50 spots and hundies and go down to your gas station or wherever you buy your stuff and pick up a ticket!! The first super raffle sold out in a matter of 3 days so dont’ take this lightly. The tickets will be on sale starting September 17th and the drawing will be October 22nd or 10 days within the sale of the last ticket. It’s good to see that the quick draw date is going to continue. Having to wait between purchase of the ticket and drawing was ridiculous!

I’ll be in line to get my 50 dollar ticket the second they start selling them at 6am. You there? I’ll be there.