Bellevue Man Wins $70,000 Playing Nebraska Pick 5

Mark Sherman of Bellevue won $70,000 playing Nebraska Pick 5 from the Nebraska Lottery.

Sherman purchased his tickets at Pump & Pantry #50 at 3605 Summit Dr. in Bellevue. The ticket contained one play for the September 25 drawing, which matched that night’s winning numbers 03, 10, 15, 20 and 27.

Sherman moved to Nebraska from South Carolina this March and has been a pretty regular player of Pick 5.

He plays the same numbers every night, a combination of family birthdays. He’d had a few smaller wins, but nothing like this.

“It was shocking, to put it lightly,” Sherman said.

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 $10,000 each drawing that is not won, are 1 in 658,008 while the overall odds of winning a prize in the game, which has drawings seven nights a week, are 1 in 9.2.

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Published on 09/30/2024