Pennsylvania Lottery Offers Chance to be on TV

MIDDLETOWN, Pennsylvania – (PRESS RELEASE) -- Keep on Scratchin', a new $1 Pennsylvania Lottery instant game on sale Dec. 28, features a second-chance drawing that will award three winners with an appearance in a future Lottery television commercial. The three winners will appear in a commercial alongside Gus, the second-most famous groundhog in Pennsylvania and the inspiration for the new instant game.

Keep on Scratchin' will offer players a top prize of $5,000 and five chances to win on each ticket. The game will offer more than $7.5 million in cash prizes and feature four pictures of Gus for players to collect. Players will win the prize shown under the matching number when any of the GROUNDHOG NUMBERS match the WINNING NUMBERS. A "keystone symbol" will win the prize shown under it automatically.

To be entered into the second-chance drawing to take place the week of Feb. 7, 2005, players must send 10 non-winning Keep on Scratchin' instant tickets to the Lottery. Players will be entered into the second-chance drawing once for every ten tickets submitted, and there is no limit to the number of times players may enter the second-chance drawing. Players must fill out the back of each ticket with the appropriate name, address, telephone number and signature of the person submitting the tickets to:

Pennsylvania Lottery

Second Chance Drawing

P.O. Box 999 vMiddletown, PA 17057-0999

All entries must be submitted in second-chance envelopes provided by Lottery retailers or in #10 envelopes and must be received by Feb. 4, 2005. Winners of the second-chance drawing will be notified by the Lottery in February. The Lottery will provide two nights' lodging for each winner and his or her guest, meals and $500 spending money. Also included will be transportation from anywhere in the state to and from the commercial production, either in Pittsburgh or Philadelphia.

The commercials in which the winners will appear and the dates of the commercial productions will be determined at a later date.

The Pennsylvania Lottery remains the only state Lottery that designates all its proceeds to programs that benefit older residents. Since its inception more than 32 years ago, the Lottery has contributed more than $14.6 billion to programs that include property tax and rent rebates; free and reduced-fare transit; the low-cost prescription drug programs PACE and PACENET; and the 52 Area Agencies on Aging, including 650 full- and part-time senior centers throughout Pennsylvania. The Lottery reminds its players to play responsibly. Players must be 18 or older.

For more information on the Pennsylvania Lottery, visit the Lottery's Web site, http://www.palottery.com.