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21st Dec 2015

9 characteristics of every local Christmas raffle & lotto ever

Have you picked your numbers?

JOE

The local Christmas raffle.

They’re as seasonal as a tin of USA biscuits and copious amounts of Cadbury’s Roses. Coincidentally, those two items usually appear on the list of prizes.

To celebrate the National Lottery’s Christmas Millionaire Raffle, where tickets are €20 and a prize of €1 million must be won in the draw on New Year’s Eve, we’re taking an insightful look at the local raffle.

Every raffle has a few things in common… here are 9 of them.

Either through persistence or charm, one person will sell the majority of the tickets

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Many sellers won’t bother at all… lazy gits 

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The seller’s prize will inevitably go to one of these people. deal

The tickets will look something like this.

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Or this… in which case, you will pick your numbers based on as many family member’s birthdays as you can remember. 

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Pic via www.newmarketgaa.com 

There will be at least one strange prize. *see below – Livestock, Farm Feeds and Lingerie…*

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The runner-up prizes will include the natural combination of booze and biscuits

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There will be an in-depth investigation into who won the big prizes. 

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The person who does win the jackpot will already have loads of money. 

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Why not get a ticket for the National Lottery’s Christmas Millionaire Raffle?

Tickets are €20 and it’s a limited offer with only 350,000 tickets on sale. Ticket sales close at 8pm on New Year’s Eve although they may well sell out by then so get yours today.

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