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Click the links below for rules regarding the Redskins Mania Sweepstakes.

This page does not include all official rules. To download the official rules, click here.
General Rules
Internet Entry Rules
Mail-In Entry Rules

The Redskins Mania Sweepstakes will be conducted beginning on August 3, 2009 and ending on March 25, 2010.

To participate, a player must submit a non-winning Virginia Lottery $50,000,000 Redskins Mania ticket available for purchase during the sweepstakes period. Players may enter by US mail or via the Internet.

In conjunction with this Sweepstakes, nine (9) prize drawings will take place, one (1) each on August 28, 2009, September 11, 2009, September 25, 2009, October 9, 2009, October 23, 2009, November 6, 2009, November 20, 2009, December 4, 2009 and March 26, 2010, to select the winners for this Sweepstakes.

Entries received but not selected to win a prize in a drawing will not be eligible for the next drawing. All Sweepstakes entries must be received at the Lottery by:
11:59 p.m. on August 27, 2009 for the August 28, 2009 drawing,
11:59 p.m. on September 10, 2009 for the September 11, 2009 drawing,
11:59 p.m. on September 24, 2009 for the September 25, 2009 drawing,
11:59 p.m. on October 8, 2009 for the October 9, 2009 drawing,
11:59 p.m. on October 22, 2009 for the October 23, 2009 drawing
11:59 p.m. on November 5, 2009 for the November 6, 2009 drawing,
11:59 p.m. on November 19, 2009 for the November 20, 2009 drawing,
11:59 p.m. on December 3, 2009 for the December 4, 2009 drawing,
11:59 p.m. on March 25, 2010 for the March 26, 2010 drawing.

Entries submitted will be valid for the drawing based on the date the entry is received by the Virginia Lottery.

The Redskins Mania Sweepstakes is open to players 18 years of age or older. Players may be required to provide proof of their date of birth.
A player may enter the Redskins Mania Sweepstakes more than once as long as a different non-winning $50,000,000 Redskins Mania ticket is submitted with each entry. However, a player is eligible to win only one prize in each drawing.
All entries, whether submitted through the US mail or on the Internet have an equal chance of winning a prize.
Chances of winning any prize in the Redskins Mania Sweepstakes depend on the number of total entries.
The Virginia Lottery will not be responsible for entries submitted incorrectly, or received before the August 3, 2009 start date or after the March 25, 2010 entry deadline date. Such entries shall be deemed invalid.
In the event one or more winners of the seven (7) season tickets for twenty (20) years declines to accept the prize(s), the Virginia Lottery may add such prize or prizes to the prizes available in the March 26, 2010 drawing.
This page does not include all official rules. To download all the official rules, click here.

To be eligible to enter the Redskins Mania Sweepstakes on the Internet, you must register as a participant with your name, date of birth, street address, city, state and ZIP code, phone number and a valid e-mail address.

If you have registered for previous second-chance drawings such as the the Corvette Cash Second Chance Sweepstakes, there is no need to re-register.

To participate, a player must submit the Sweepstakes Entry Number from one (1) non-winning $50,000,000 Redskins Mania ticket.

The Sweepstakes Entry Number is the 14-digit number that is found on the back of the ticket.
A Sweepstakes Entry Number may be entered only one time.
PLAYERS MUST RETAIN THE NON-WINNING TICKETS THEY ENTER, AS PROOF OF ELIGIBILITY, SO THEY CAN CLAIM THEIR PRIZE IF THEIR ENTRY IS SELECTED.
Players must correctly enter the Sweepstakes Entry Number found on the back of their non-winning scratcher ticket. The Virginia Lottery will not be responsible for Sweepstakes Entry Numbers that are transposed or entered incorrectly. The Sweepstakes Entry Number is the first 14-digit number that is found on the back of the ticket.
The Winners selected will each be notified by an official letter, email or text message sent by the Virginia Lottery. Included with the congratulatory letter will be a Claim form, an Affidavit of Eligibility form, return envelope and a complete copy of the Virginia Lottery’s Redskins Mania Sweepstakes Rules.

Winners who fail to respond to their winner notification will forfeit their Prize.
Only one (1) entry per envelope. An entry consists of one (1) non-winning $50,000,000 Redskins Mania ticket.
Print your full name, address, city, state, ZIP code, Date of Birth and daytime telephone number on the back of the ticket. Entries MUST include ALL information to be eligible.
Place the ticket in an envelope no larger than 4.5” x 9.5” and mail to:

Virginia Lottery Redskins Mania Sweepstakes
Post Office Box 1758
Richmond, Virginia 23219
Do not send winning tickets to the Sweepstakes entry address. Tickets that have won a prize are not eligible for drawings.
Entries mailed to any other Lottery address will NOT be eligible for the drawing and will not be returned to the player.
Non-winning $50,000,000 Redskins Mania ticket that have been entered on the Internet are NOT eligible to be mailed in as entries.
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