Jackpot Winner Finally Believes

May 10, 2006--Mark Siske of Lincoln won $138,000 playing Nebraska Pick 5 on May 5 but he didn’t believe it.

Siske visited the Nebraska Lottery website, nelottery.com, to check his numbers on the $2 ticket he had purchased earlier that day at Osco Drug on South 48th Street. The ticket consisted of two plays. One play was his own numbers and the other was a computer generated quick pick. The first set of number’s didn’t match but the second set matched all five numbers drawn on May 5: 05, 06, 07, 11, 20.

Not believing that he had the winning ticket, Siske said he checked the winning numbers at least four or five more times. Still in disbelief, he asked his wife to check the numbers. Having just woken up, she at first glance thought the ticket was for the wrong date. A second look however confirmed that they had just won the game’s top prize.

Siske told Nebraska Lottery officials that he plans on using the winnings to pay bills, make a down payment on a house, and to go back to school to get his teaching certificate.

The odds of winning the Nebraska Pick 5 jackpot are 1 in 501,942. The overall odds of winning something playing the game are 1 in 8.

Over $250 million has been raised for the Nebraska Lottery’s beneficiary funds since the Lottery began in 1993. All 93 counties in Nebraska have received service through grants funded with these Nebraska Lottery proceeds.

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Published on 05/11/2006