Lincoln Man Wins $50,000 Playing Nebraska Pick 5

December 10, 2013 – David Tyrrell of Lincoln recently won $50,000 playing Nebraska Pick 5 from the Nebraska Lottery.

Tyrrell purchased his winning Nebraska Pick 5 ticket at Casey’s General Store, 4335 North 70^th Street in Lincoln. The ticket contained all five of the winning numbers (4, 7, 19, 33, 36) from the December 4 drawing for the $50,000 jackpot.

Two hundred and ninety-three Nebraska Lottery players have won the Nebraska Pick 5 jackpot to date. Tyrrell plans to pay bills and take a trip 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.