$86,000 Nebraska Pick 5 Jackpot for Lincoln Woman

November 18, 2009 – Toni Kent of Lincoln recently won $86,000 playing Nebraska Pick 5 from the Nebraska Lottery.

There were more than 20,000 Nebraska Lottery winners in the Saturday, November 7, drawings. Among these winners was Kent, who purchased a three-play Nebraska Pick 5 ticket at Russ's Market, 1709 Washington Street in Lincoln. One play on the ticket contained all five of the winning numbers (17, 19, 22, 27, 38) from the November 7 drawing for the $86,000 jackpot.

One hundred and eighty-nine Nebraska Lottery players have won the Nebraska Pick 5 jackpot to date.

Nebraska Pick 5 is a unique Nebraska 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 time it is not won, are 1 in 501,942 while the overall odds of winning a prize in the game are 1 in 8.

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Published on 11/18/2009