Million-Dollar Winning Tickets for PA Lottery Millionaire Raffle
Sold in Cumberland, Jefferson, Lycoming and Northampton Counties
MIDDLETOWN, Pa., Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --
Pennsylvania Lottery retailers in Cumberland, Jefferson, Lycoming and Northampton counties sold the four
$1 million top-prize winning tickets
from the Jan. 5 Millionaire Raffle
drawing.
Top-prize winning tickets were sold at these locations:
- Giant Food Store, 5301 Simpson Ferry Road, Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County;
- Uni Mart, 501 E. Main St.,
Reynoldsville, Jefferson County;
- Wegman's Food Market, 201 Williams St., Williamsport, Lycoming County; and
- Exxon Ikes, 201 S. Wood Ave., Easton, Northampton
County.
Each store will receive a $5,000
selling bonus from the Pennsylvania Lottery.
Lottery officials cannot confirm the identities of the winners
until the prizes are claimed and the tickets are validated.
Millionaire Raffle winners have one year from the drawing date to
claim prizes.
Each $1 million top prize must be
claimed by presenting a winning ticket at Pennsylvania Lottery
headquarters in Middletown,
Dauphin County, or at any of the
Lottery's seven area offices. Claims may be filed Monday through
Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at
Lottery headquarters and from 8:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. at area offices.
Claims for the four $100,000
prizes can be filed at any of the Lottery's seven area offices or
at any licensed Pennsylvania Lottery retailer. Holders of
Millionaire Raffle tickets worth $1,000 and $100 can
claim winnings at local Lottery retailers.
A complete list of all 6,000 winning raffle ticket numbers is
available at Lottery retail locations and at www.palottery.com.
Winning raffle ticket numbers are listed on the Lottery website by
prize category in ascending order. In addition, every Lottery
retailer has a ticket checker allowing players to scan their own
tickets to learn if they have won a prize.
The four $1 million top-prize
raffle ticket numbers selected were 00023446, 00075876, 00158528
and 00222718.
The four $100,000 second-tier
prize raffle ticket numbers selected were 00025999, 00055244,
00312400 and 00441075.
A total of 6,000 prizes were selected from a pool of 500,000
tickets that were sold between Nov. 16 and
Dec. 30, when the game sold out.
In fiscal year 2011-12, the Pennsylvania Lottery awarded nearly
$103.9 million to winners in
Cumberland, Jefferson, Lycoming and Northampton counties. The Lottery also
contributed nearly $54 million to
programs that benefited older residents of those counties.
About the Pennsylvania Lottery: The Pennsylvania Lottery
remains the only state lottery that designates all its proceeds to
programs that benefit older residents. Since its inception in 1971,
the Pennsylvania Lottery has contributed more than $22.6 billion to programs that include property
tax and rent rebates; free transit and reduced-fare shared rides;
the low-cost prescription drug programs PACE and PACENET; long-term
living services; and the 52 Area Agencies on Aging, including full-
and part-time senior centers throughout the state.
The Pennsylvania Lottery reminds its players to play
responsibly. Players must be 18 or older.
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Media contact: Lauren
Piccolo or Gary Miller,
717-702-8008
SOURCE Pennsylvania Lottery