StatewideFriday, November 6
Montana Millionaire tickets go back on sale Thursday, Nov. 12, at 6:30 a.m.
The Good Day Billings team
If you stood in line for Montana Millionaire on Nov. 1, hang on to your ticket. The Montana Lottery says every raffle ticket printed that day, and any instant win tied to it, is good for all drawings. Sales restart at 6:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, and Nov. 1 tickets stay valid.
Montana Millionaire sales restart Nov. 12 and the drawings stay on schedule
- Nov. 1Sales open at 5:30 a.m. and are suspended around 11 a.m.
- Nov. 12Ticket sales will resume at 6:30 a.m.
- Nov. 30Quarter Million Monday drawing, with one $250,000 prize, will be held.
- Dec. 28Six $1 million grand prizes and a $20,000 Player's Club prize will be drawn.
Sources: Montana State News Network, KECI, NonStop Local Montana, KTVH
A new system couldn't keep up, and instant wins were awarded more often than intended. By the time sales stopped, 2,010 of 12,919 tickets were instant winners, roughly one in six against the intended one in 74. The vendor, Bally's Intralot, said in a statement it's working with the lottery to resolve the issues.
$608,600in instant wins from the Nov. 1 tickets
That's 991 tickets worth $100 each and 1,019 worth $500 each, and the lottery has promised to honor them all.
- Price: $20 a ticket
- Supply: 720,000 tickets, 100,000 more than last year
- Last year: the full allocation sold out in just over six hours
- Instant winners: still eligible for the other drawings