Minden Man Wins $114,000 Nebraska Pick 5 Jackpot

Donald MillerDonald Miller of Minden recently won $114,000 playing Nebraska Pick 5 from the Nebraska Lottery.

There were more than 7,500 Nebraska Lottery winners in the Thursday, January 8 drawings. Among these winners was Miller, who purchased his winning ticket at Casey’s General Store, 653 North Brown Street in Minden. The quick pick ticket contained all five of the winning numbers (6, 26, 33, 36, 37) from the January 8 drawing for the $114,000 jackpot.

Three hundred and twenty-one Nebraska Lottery players have won the Nebraska Pick 5 jackpot to date.

While claiming his prize on January 16, Miller told Nebraska Lottery officials that he learned he had won after stopping back at the store to check his ticket. “I called my wife and said, ‘I don’t know what’s going on, but I think I won,’” said Miller. “I couldn’t believe it.” He plans to pay bills and take a family vacation using his winnings.

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 01/26/2015