$54,000 Nebraska Pick 5 Jackpot for Hastings Man
January 29, 2010 – Gary Wathen of Hastings recently won $54,000 playing Nebraska Pick 5 from the Nebraska Lottery.
There were more than 7,000 Nebraska Lottery winners in the Friday, January 15, drawings. Among these winners was Wathen, who purchased his winning Nebraska Pick 5 ticket at Allen's of Hastings, 1115 West Second Street in Hastings. The five-play quick pick ticket contained one play with all five of the winning numbers (1, 7, 16, 25, 29) from the January 15 drawing for the $54,000 jackpot.
One hundred and ninety-five Nebraska Lottery players have won the Nebraska Pick 5 jackpot to date.
While claiming his prize, Wathen told Nebraska Lottery officials that he “didn’t believe it” when he checked his ticket at Allen’s and learned he had won the $54,000 jackpot. He plans to pay bills using his winnings.
Nebraska Pick 5 is a unique Nebraska Lottery game: all the proceeds from Nebraska Pick 5 stay in Nebraska, and all the winning tickets are sold in Nebraska at Nebraska Lottery Lotto game retailers. The odds of winning the Nebraska Pick 5 jackpot, which starts at $50,000 and grows by $4,000 each time it is not won, are 1 in 501,942 while the overall odds of winning a prize in the game are 1 in 8.
Published on 01/29/2010