$146,000 Nebraska Pick 5 Jackpot for Dodge Man
June 4, 2010 – Roger Schorn of Dodge recently won $146,000 playing Nebraska Pick 5 from the Nebraska Lottery.
There were more than 21,000 Nebraska Lottery winners in the Wednesday, May 26, drawings. Among these winners was Schorn, who purchased his winning Nebraska Pick 5 ticket at 2nd Street Market, 153 Oak Street in Dodge. The ticket contained all five of the winning numbers (10, 12, 14, 21, 38) from the May 26 drawing for the $146,000 jackpot.
Two hundred and one Nebraska Lottery players have won the Nebraska Pick 5 jackpot to date.
While claiming his prize on May 28, Schorn told Nebraska Lottery officials that he learned he had won after seeing the winning numbers on the WOWT Channel 6 news. He plans to save his winnings for the future.
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.
Published on 06/04/2010