First $30,000 Early Bird Holiday Millionaire Raffle Winning Number Announced; Tickets Already Over 1/3rd Sold

TOPEKA, KAN. –The annual Holiday Millionaire Raffle is one of the Kansas Lottery’s most popular games, and for good reason! It offers players their best odds at winning $1 million as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars in other prizes, and the first big win is off the board following the $30,000 October 5 Early Bird drawing.

The winning number in the October 5, 2025 Holiday Millionaire Raffle drawing was ticket 022536. The ticket was sold in the Southwest region of Kansas, which includes the following counties: Greeley, Wichita, Scott, Lane, Ness, Rush, Hamilton, Kearny, Finney, Hodgeman, Pawnee, Stanton, Grant, Haskell, Gray, Ford, Edwards, Kiowa, Morton, Stevens, Seward, Meade, Clark, and Comanche.

There are only 150,000 Holiday Millionaire Raffle tickets available, and as of 8:00 a.m. on the morning of October 6, over 55,218 tickets have already been sold! Players are encouraged to get their tickets now, so they are eligible to win in the two remaining Early Bird drawings as well as the grand finale drawing.

On January 5, 2026, the Kansas Lottery will announce the winning number for the $1 million Grand Prize plus thousands of other prizes, including one $100,000 winner, one $25,000 winner, two $10,000 winners, and more! Here are the prizes and the number of winners at each prize level:

The Grand Prize announcement will air on various television stations across Kansas at approximately 12 p.m. on January 5, 2026.

Each ticket has a unique six-digit number. Tickets are Quick Pick only and will print on terminals throughout the state in numerical order, from 000001 to 150000. Players must match their numbers in exact order to those drawn by the Lottery to win. Players should put their tickets in a safe place after purchase. Every ticket purchased is eligible to win in all subsequent Early Bird drawings and in the Grand Finale drawing. Remember – winners must produce their original Holiday Millionaire Raffle tickets to claim their prizes!

Players are invited to submit all their winning and non-winning tickets in the Kansas Lottery PlayOn^® Players Loyalty program to earn points for drawing entries and a chance to win cash and other prizes!  PlayOn® is a registered trademark of Pollard Banknote Limited used under license.