Spalding Man Wins $154,000 Nebraska Pick 5 jackpot
Curtis Stevens of Spalding recently won a $154,000 Nebraska Pick 5 jackpot.
On a recent Friday evening, Stevens was in Bassett on his way to Scottsbluff. He stopped at Scott’s Place, 102 W Highway 20.
“The only reason we even stopped is because we were lost,” Stevens told Nebraska Lottery officials while claiming his prize. “We stopped to get a map and I figured I’d buy a Pick 5 ticket, too.”
Stevens says he’s played Nebraska Pick 5 for 15 years, playing almost every drawing. Nebraska Pick 5 draws six nights a week. The overall odds for the game are 1 in 8. The odds for winning the jackpot, which begins at $50,000 and grows each time it’s not hit, are 1 in 501,942.
Stevens says he’s never won a prize this large and, when he first checked, he didn’t believe he’d really won.
“My wife didn’t believe me either,” he says.
Unlike most of Nebraska Lottery’s Lotto games, Nebraska Pick 5 is unique to Nebraska. All proceeds from ticket sales stay within the state and all tickets are sold in Nebraska.
Since 2000, Nebraska Pick 5 has helped raise a total of over $564 million for the Nebraska Lottery’s beneficiary funds. All 93 counties in Nebraska have benefited from projects funded with these Nebraska Lottery proceeds.
Published on 07/10/2015