California Lottery

Triple Action Lottery plan

What follows is my proposed triple-action california lottery plan, the first such lottery plan in the world, which will greatly increase and possibly double a state’s yearly lottery revenue. My original Twenty Numbers, a lottery-type contest produced by Marden-Kane, Inc., was the first lottery-type ticket printed by computer. Twenty Numbers preceded new Jersey’s successful state lottery by several years. In fact, the basic format of the New Jersey state lottery appeared first in the original of my Scarne’s Complete Guide to Gambling in 1961... Triple Action Lottery Plan
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California Raffles

The oldest, and still very popular, form of lottery in America is the raffle, or local drawing. Next to Bingo, raffles are the country’s biggest fund raisers for charity. Fraternal organizations, veterans’ groups and almost every other kind of organization in the country have benefited at some time from a raffle of some sort. Many raffles have automobiles valued at $2,000 to $15,000 as prizes, with the raffle tickets seffing from a low of 10 to a high of $100. Some drawings have $50,000 and $125,000 homes as their top california lottery awards. And, I have known of some raffle tickets on estates that have sold for as much as $1,000 each.

The only advice I can give you on local raffle-ticket buying, whether it is legal or illegal in your state, is: Be careful from whom you buy. There are a great many crooked and counterfeit raffle tickets floating around.
To sum up, there are hundreds of variations on the general lottery patterns.