Omaha Man Wins $94,000 Nebraska Pick 5 Jackpot

Winner Gary Gammel of Omaha won $94,000 playing Nebraska Pick 5 from the Nebraska Lottery.

Gammel purchased his winning Nebraska Pick 5 ticket at Hy-Vee, 17810 Welch Plaza in Omaha. The five-play quick pick ticket contained one play with all five winning numbers (2, 19, 29, 33, 38) from the February 26 drawing for the $94,000 jackpot.

Three hundred and thirty Nebraska Lottery players have won the Nebraska Pick 5 jackpot to date.

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 03/04/2016