$22,000 2by2 Prize for Lincoln Man

Fay Kapke of Lincoln won a total of $22,006 playing 2by2 from the Nebraska Lottery.

There were 16,500 Nebraska Lottery winners in the Tuesday, February 24 drawings. Among these winners was Kapke, who purchased his winning ticket at CVS Pharmacy, 1550 South Street in Lincoln. The five-play ticket contained one play with the winning red ball numbers (11, 19) and winning white ball numbers (4, 16) from the February 24 drawing for a corresponding prize of $22,000.

Two additional plays on the ticket matched one red ball number and one white ball number for $3 each, making Kapke’s total prize $22,006.

Three hundred and forty-one Nebraska Lottery players have won the 2by2 top prize to date.

Kapke wasted no time claiming his prize, arriving at Nebraska Lottery headquarters the day after the drawing. He told Nebraska Lottery officials that he learned he had won after seeing the winning numbers in the newspaper that morning. “I choked up a bit when I saw the numbers, and I told my wife, ‘I don’t believe it,’” said Kapke. He plans to save his winnings for a new truck. “It’s going in my pickup fund, because sooner or later I’ll need a new one,” said Kapke.

2by2 is run by the Multi-State Lottery Association and was introduced in June 2002. Players in Kansas, Nebraska and North Dakota have the opportunity to win up to $22,000 Monday through Sunday by playing 2by2. The odds of winning the $22,000 2by2 top prize are 1 in 105,625, and the odds of winning $3 are 1 in 46. The overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.59.

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Published on 03/04/2015