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daho Lottery conducts first USA holiday raffle drawing of 2008

The Idaho Lottery conducted its $1,000,000 Raffle drawing Tuesday evening, and created one instant millionaire.

The winning numbers are available Lottery Post’s Idaho Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/id).

In addition to the $1 million top prize, there will be four winners of $15,000, 500 winners of $300, and 150 winners of $100. All prizes are lump-sum cash payments.

A total of 250,000 tickets were available for the raffle at the price of $10.00 apiece. Sales of Raffle tickets began Nov. 7, 2008, and all the tickets were sold prior to the drawing.
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The Raffle drawing, which took place at 9:59 p.m. MT, was broadcast live on five television stations: KTRV, KPVI, KLEW, KMVT, KSKN.

Instant prizes

In addition to the prizes awarded with the drawing tonight, 1,500 tickets were instant winners of $50.

Upon purchase of a $1,000,000 Raffle ticket, at random, the Lottery terminals played “You are a raffle instant winner” for 1,500 ticket buyers, and awarded $50 instantly.

The instant winners were paid immediately at the retailer location.

Instant winners are also eligible to win any prize in the drawing.

Prize claims

$1,000,000 and $15,000 prize winners must claim their prizes at Idaho Lottery headquarters. The Lottery advises winners to call their office at 1-208-334-2277 with any questions.

$100 and $300 prize winners can redeem their winning tickets at any Idaho Lottery retailer.

Prizes must be claimed within 180 days of the drawing date. source

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