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A Corvallis woman, playing the Oregon Lottery’s Raffle game for the first time Raffle, won $1 million after learning about the game from her boyfriend.

Janelle Visaya claimed her prize Thursday after using the lottery app to check her tickets on the day of the drawing.

“My boyfriend told me about the Raffle, and so I bought a ticket a week; I think I had seven tickets. I didn’t mention I was buying them though,” she said. “On the day of the drawing, I was scanning them, and one said I won, so I set it aside and kept scanning. When I went back to see what I had won I was like, ‘...