Deadline Approaching To Get In The Raffle

If you've been procrastinating, I'm officially putting you on notice: You've only got about a week to buy your ticket(s) in the Iowa Lottery's "Pot O' Gold Raffle"!

The game offers you some of the best odds ever to win a big prize! A maximum of 120,000 $20 raffle tickets will be sold, and Saturday, March 13, is the last day you can buy one!

We'll hold the raffle drawing on Saint Patrick's Day (Wednesday, March 17). Remember that you need to keep your raffle ticket to check your numbers against the winning raffle numbers and claim a prize.

Raffle tickets are available from lottery terminals statewide where you buy Powerball tickets. Each ticket you buy will have a unique number ranging from 10000001 to 10120000. Tickets are printed in sequential order across the state, meaning you get the next number that's available (you can't pick your own number). To win, the number on your ticket has to match the number drawn in the exact order.

Below are the details about the prizes in the game and the odds of winning. And remember, if for some reason the game doesn't sell out, your odds of winning will be even better!

Good luck, and thanks for playing. We hope to write you a big winner's check in the Pot O' Gold Raffle!

Raffle Prizes and Odds**
$1 million	One Winner	1:120,000
$100,000	One Winner	1:120,000
$1,000	100 Winners	1:1,200

(PRIZES ARE BASED ON A SELL-OUT. IF ALL TICKETS ARE NOT SOLD, PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED ON A PARI-MUTUEL BASIS BASED ON A PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL TICKETS ACTUALLY SOLD AND WILL BE LOWER THAN SET PRIZE AMOUNTS. SEE OFFICIAL RULES FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.)

Comments

[Mary Neubauer]

Hi, Mike. It's been great to see people's interest in the raffle game! And yes, the raffle drawing was held yesterday (March 17.) Yesterday's blog entry gives the details about the drawing and link to the page where you can see the winning numbers. Thanks for playing and good luck!

Mary

[Mike]

Its Tuesday,March 17th.Are you going to have the drawing today or not?Its already past 3 P.M.