Kansas millionaire raffle starts Friday with record number of prizes

This year’s Kansas Lottery “Holiday Millionaire Raffle” will give away a record 40,000 prizes.

Tickets cost $20 and go on sale Friday. A total of 200,000 tickets will be available for sale, making overall odds of winning 1 in 5.

The largest prize is $1 million; the winning ticket will be drawn Jan. 3.

The Kansas Lottery says it will give away “tens of thousands of $20 Instant Win cash prizes.”

Here are the rest of the prizes:

Early bird drawings

▪ Two $25,000 prizes will be drawn Oct. 9 and Nov. 27 to start and end the early bird drawings.

▪ Nine $10,000 prizes will be drawn Oct. 16, Oct. 20, Oct. 23, Oct. 27, Oct. 30, Nov. 3, Nov. 6, Nov. 10 and Nov. 13.

Raffle drawings Jan. 3

▪ One $1 million prize

▪ One $25,000 prize

▪ Five $5,000 prizes

▪ Five $1,000 prizes

▪ Fifty $100 prizes.

▪ If game is not sold out, prize amounts could be altered.

Instant $20 prizes

Tickets winning a $20 Instant Win Cash Prize will include a ticket message on the ticket that says: “You have won a $20 Instant Prize!” Each Instant Win ticket will have a special symbol to identify it as an instant winner, and music will play when an Instant Win ticket is produced, so players should listen for the “sounder.”

Players can redeem $20 Instant Wins immediately. Once an Instant Win ticket is redeemed, the player will receive a replacement ticket with the same raffle number that was on their original ticket.

Basic rules

Tickets must be purchased by 6:59 p.m. on each draw date to be eligible for that night’s drawing and all subsequent drawings, including the grand prize drawing.

Winners must produce their original Holiday Millionaire Raffle tickets to claim prizes.

Visit www.kslottery.com for more information and daily updates on the number of Holiday Millionaire Raffle tickets that remain for players to purchase.

This story was originally published September 8, 2016 at 10:35 AM with the headline "Kansas millionaire raffle starts Friday with record number of prizes."