$110,000 Nebraska Pick 5 Jackpot for Columbus Man

December 7, 2012 – Gary Gotschall of Columbus recently won $110,000 playing Nebraska Pick 5 from the Nebraska Lottery.

There were more than 13,500 Nebraska Lottery winners in the Saturday, November 10 drawings. Among them was Gotschall, who purchased his winning ticket at Dickie Doodles, 2820 East 23^rd Street in Columbus. The five-play ticket contained one play with the winning numbers (11, 20, 22, 30, 34) from the November 10 drawing for the $110,000 jackpot.

Two hundred and sixty-four Nebraska Lottery players have won the Nebraska Pick 5 jackpot to date. Gotschall plans to pay bills using his winnings.

Nebraska Pick 5 is Nebraska's unique 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 drawing that it is not won, are 1 in 501,942. The overall odds of winning a prize in the game, which has drawings six nights a week, are 1 in 8.