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!

Finding random un-checked tickets

It’s always a pleasant surprise when your looking around for junk or cleaning up around your desk or closet and find that lottery ticket that you totally forgot to check. Whether it was because you placed it there for later because you bought it way early, or things fell and temporarily buried it. It’s always fun to remember a ticket that COULD be a winner. Usually if yoru like me, you have a system to make sure you didn’t already check the ticket. For me, I cross a diagonal line down the middle for losers, and I put the dollar amount down I won for the tickets that I got something. Then there’s the circles of numbers to indicate I got those numbers…which are scattered on losers and winners. But today I found about 4 tickets scattered on my desk that had no markings whatsoever. SCORE!! This means another chance to win!

Since I’m constant on what the jackpots are for every ticket I buy, I know that I didn’t win the big one. However, there are the small pots that could be worth up to $250,000 that I would never know about. Alas, none of these tickets were winners today. I still look back at the times I found tickets laying around that I got money off of and how future one’s could be the big winners. Hopefully in the future, they don’t get misplaced and I’ll know sooner then later.

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!

Michigan Mega Million Adventures!

A little overboard maybe, but between me and my girlfriend we have 24 chances to win the mega millions. Does that many chances make a difference? Maybe….maybe not. We started out the journey just cruising around talking about it as I usually swing the conversation and then it hit her. The big 330 million dollar sign of the mega millions on the highway. Right then she told me she wanted to go in on it and BIG. We both wanted 20 each but then settled for 10, me having only 15 bucks and her only having a 20. Fair is fair and we wanted to make sure we both split it evenly down the middle and nobody had an extra ticket chance to their name. We drove down to the local party store Zmart and made our big bets there for 20 chances. It didn’t stop there though. The next day as I was getting gas after I picked her up from school, she decided to disappear and reappear with 2 lottery tickets…..a sobe and some dorito’s. That upped it to 22 chances.

At this point she had some leverage on me but insisted that everything is split down the middle. I believe her, but I just wouldn’t feel right knowing she bought more tickets then I did for the contribution. Later that day I wanted to show her these huge houses I seen last time me and my friend bought lottery tickets. Last time the jackpot hit over 300 million, me my friend and his g/f all went about 20 miles to the edge of Ann Arbor. Maybe not the edge, but we all agreed to drive 10 minutes west from the highway and stop at the next available lottery retailer that wasn’t a gas station. After that we drove another 10 minutes and came upon this small area of 3 story houses that were just astonishing. I wanted to show her for so long but the first time there was construction. However yesterday there was not only construction, but thee weirdest craziest signs and directions I’ve seen. Are they common? Somewhere perhaps, but nothing I’ve ever seen. So we had to head back home disappointed. Of course we made a stop at Chipotle for some guac and chips and some burrito goodness. If your in Ann Arbor off of 23 and Washtenaw anywhere, it’s a must go!

We headed for a fillup at Meijer gas station. Sure I filled up earlier, but only a gallon or 2. Enough to get me to Meijer so I can use the 50 cents off per gallon coupon. It’s a godsend!! Only 10 gallons, but hey 5 bucks saved there!! That went straight to the lottery fund though from earlier. While I was pumping gas, she waved a dollar bill out and said one more, one more! Am I in love with this girl or what? So I went to pay and put a dollar of my own into a 2 pick ticket for the mega millions. She’s officially bought 2 more tickets then me to date and I have 12 hours to come up with 2 of my own to make it feel fair.

The big jackpot for tonight’s drawing is an estimated: $330 million.

A nice little post from the Michigan website that is finally cracking down and letting people know some of what they’ll win:

“If a player wins Friday’s $330 million jackpot and chooses the annuity payment option, he or she will receive a whopping $12.7 million per year for 26 years, less taxes! That breaks down to $1,057,692 per month; $244,083 per week; $34,773 per day; and $4,347 per day for an eight-hour day!

If a winner prefers the prize in one payment, the amount is $194.4 million, less taxes.”
I know I’ll go with the down payment but at the same time I always wonder about the payments. Then again I might wake up one day and get hit by a bus during a morning bike ride or jog. Life’s to short to worry about money after you’ve won the lottery. If you act like a complete spend thrift with it then I can see that the payments would be a lot more better for you. I don’t need all those lavish dinners and things. Just get me a huge house and stock it full of the best video games and entertainment equipment and I’m set for life.

I wish everybody the best of luck!

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!