Four lottery players will start the New Year off millionaires. There are 43,264 $20 tickets left as of Sunday in the Virginia's Millionaire Raffle game. There were only a total of 440,000 tickets printed. Officials expect for all the tickets to be sold by the drawing tonight.

The winners will be drawn at 11pm.

That’s not all, four more winners will be drawn for a nice New Year prize of $50,000 and 400 more get to start 2008 with $500 extra in their pockets.

The odds of winning a million dollars in this raffle are the best ever at 1 in 110,000 according to Virginia lottery officials.

This Virginia lottery raffle was held back in June with 4 winners in Alexandria, Crozet, Lynchburg and Swoope taking home $1 million each.

The winner’s names will be scrolled across Virginia television sets at 11 pm. Also their names will be made available on the Lottery's Web site after the drawing.


- 2007-12-31