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| ADD SOME “FIRE” TO YOUR HOT LOTTO PLAY WITH THE NEW “HOT LOTTO SIZZLER” OPTION! For an additional $1 per play at the time of purchase, you can triple your Hot Lotto winnings (except the jackpot) with Hot Lotto Sizzler! Hot Lotto Sizzler costs an additional $1 per Hot Lotto pick. Play and you win 3 times your prize! Remember to ask for a Hot Lotto Sizzler every time you play! (not available in all jurisdictions) |
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Grand Rapids Resident Claims Hot Lotto® Jackpot
You always hope, but you never expect to win," said Sandy Conrad as her husband, Don Conrad of Grand Rapids, Minn., claimed a Hot Lotto jackpot worth $2.61 million."I always buy a ticket," said Sandy. "I didn't think much about it. When I went to work on Monday, somebody said, 'Someone in Itasca County won Hot Lotto!' I had to work late and when I got home, Don said, 'Get on the computer [to check the winning numbers.]' I printed off the numbers and checked." She saw that all six numbers on the first line of her five-line quick-pick ticket matched the winning numbers and told Don. "I jumped up and ran out there and looked. I just couldn't believe it," he said. Don is retired, but Sandy had to go to work at the Grand Rapids Herald-Review newspaper the next morning to ask for a day off to claim the prize. River Road Market, located at 302 – 7th Ave. S.E. in Grand Rapids, sold the winning ticket and will receive a $10,000 bonus. The cash option is worth $1.98 million before required tax withholding. |
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Mapleton Resident Wins Sizzlin' Hot Prize worth $30,000
– When Brian Snyder checked his Hot Lotto ticket on a Kansas Lottery Check-a-Ticket machine last Saturday, he was quite surprised when a message read, "Claim at Lottery. Sign back of ticket." Never seeing this before, Snyder figured he must have won $600 or possibly more, and he was correct! The Mapleton resident revealed the first five Hot Lotto numbers in the January 11 drawing, winning a $10,000 cash prize, but since he purchased the Sizzler option, his winnings were multiplied by three, bringing his total winnings to $30,000!Snyder, who purchased a $4 Quick Pick ticket, was literally one number away from winning the Hot Lotto jackpot. Snyder's winning numbers were 08-16-28-34-35 Hot Ball 13. The winning numbers were 08-16-28-34-35 Hot Ball 14. "After I checked my ticket and got the message that I had to claim my ticket at the Lottery, I went over to a friend's house to look up the numbers on the Internet," explained Snyder. "I was very surprised to see that I won $30,000. I've been playing Hot Lotto since the game began and this is the first time I've won over $12. Adding the Sizzler option really paid off for me. When I told my friends and family how much I had won, some had a hard time believing me." There are nine ways to win playing Hot Lotto. By adding the Sizzler option, the total cost of a wager doubles, but players have a chance to triple any prizes won. "I'm going to continue buying my tickets with Sizzler," said Snyder. "I'm still shooting for the big one – a jackpot!" Snyder, who farms wheat, corn, and soybeans, was undecided how he would spend his winnings. He purchased his winning ticket at Hill's Service 1, located at 308 N. National in Fort Scott. |
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| The Mystery Of The Missing Millionaire: Just One Month Remains For Hot Lotto® Jackpot To Be Claimed The one-month countdown has begun for a multi-million-dollar Hot Lotto® jackpot that remains unclaimed 11 months after it was won with a ticket purchased in Des Moines. The winning ticket will expire Dec. 29 if it isn't claimed by then. With each passing day, the Iowa Lottery receives more inquiries from those who wonder if they may have made the jackpot-winning purchase nearly a year ago at a Des Moines convenience store. But so far, no one has presented the winning ticket, and lottery officials emphasize that is a requirement for claiming the prize. "That is a message we want to stress: You must present the winning ticket to the lottery in order to claim the prize," Lottery CEO Terry Rich said Tuesday. "It is sad to see this huge prize continue to sit there without being claimed. Someone legitimately won this money and we want them to take it home. It could make a huge difference in someone's life – or several someones' lives – just in time for the holidays." The passage of time also reveals the impact that a down economy can have, even on lottery jackpots. Although the majority of recent winners have chosen the cash option, jackpot winners can choose to receive their winnings as annuitized payments over time or a lump-sum payment. At the time the big prize was won back on Dec. 29, 2010, the estimated annuitized jackpot amount was $16.5 million. That annuitized estimate is based upon the cash on hand from the sale of tickets along with the amount in interest that would be generated over time after the lottery invested the money. While the cash value of the jackpot remains unchanged at $10.75 million, today's low interest rates mean the annuitized jackpot amount has fallen to an estimated $14.4 million. "This has been a topsy-turvy story all the way around," Rich said. "But we're hoping that our reminders will cause someone to double-check their ticket and realize they're the big winner before the expiration date." Rich said that the lottery does not release a ticket's date or time of sale for security reasons. "Some information is kept as our way to double-check that the winner is legitimate," he said. The Lottery has provided some key information that might jar a winner's memory. The Hot Lotto jackpot-winning ticket was purchased at Quik Trip, 4801 N.E. 14th St. in Des Moines. The lucky ticket matched all six numbers selected in the Hot Lotto drawing on Dec. 29, 2010, to win the grand prize. The winning numbers that night were: 3-12-16-26-33 and Hot Ball 11. Hot Lotto tickets in Iowa expire a year from the date of the drawing in which a prize is won, so Rich emphasized there's still time for the jackpot to be claimed. The prize will expire at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011, if it isn't claimed by then. (The lottery's Validations Office closes at 4 p.m. and the equipment needed to process winning tickets is shut down at that time.) To help draw attention to the unclaimed jackpot and its approaching deadline, the lottery has installed a countdown clock at its headquarters office in Des Moines and programmed a countdown clock that people can track on its website at www.ialottery.com. In addition to fielding inquiries that have come in via email, telephone and in-person visits from curious members of the public, Iowa Lottery security investigators have worked to possibly identify the jackpot winner by tracking similar ticket purchase patterns. So far, none of the people the lottery has contacted has turned out to be the big winner. Just a handful of U.S. lottery prizes that were larger have ever gone unclaimed. The largest recent U.S. lottery prize that expired without being claimed was a $68 million Mega Millions® ticket purchased in Brooklyn, N.Y., for a December 2002 drawing. If the Hot Lotto prize expires without being claimed, the money from the jackpot will go back to the 15 lotteries that offer Hot Lotto in proportion to the percentage of sales that came from each state. For example, if Iowa contributed 20 percent of the sales for that particular jackpot, Iowa would get 20 percent of the money back. How the money would be used depends upon the specific laws and rules in each state. In Iowa, the money from unclaimed prizes goes into the lottery's prize pools for future games. "Iowa would get back about $1.3 million if this prize were to go unclaimed," Rich said. "We've talked about having a special promotion in the spring to give the money away, with a theme of 'everyone deserves a second chance.' But right now, we're concentrating on trying to find this big winner or group of winners." |
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WATERLOO MAN CLAIMS
$7.5 MILLION HOT LOTTO® JACKPOT
A Waterloo man who is Iowa's newest lottery millionaire has one goal in mind through the process: He wants to remain calm. His family, however, is having some trouble following that plan."I am very calm about it. These guys are more uptight about it than I am," Wally Markham said with a chuckle as he claimed his prize. Wally Markham, 65, of Waterloo, traveled to lottery headquarters in Des Moines on Wednesday to claim the $7.54 million jackpot from Saturday night's Hot Lotto® drawing. He was accompanied by his girlfriend, Vicky Lindquist of Waterloo, and her daughter and granddaughter, also of Waterloo. Markham said he learned he might be the big winner on Sunday morning, after he had given his newspaper to his neighbor to read. His neighbor called him and asked if he had a Hot Lotto ticket. Wally said he did, and the neighbor read the winning numbers to him that were printed in the paper. "He said, 'How'd you fare?' I said, 'I won,'" recalled Markham, who retired after working for 36 years at the Deere & Co. plant in Waterloo. "He said, 'Is that all you're going to say?' I said, 'Yeah, I won.' But I went over and looked at it, too." Markham said he plans to invest his jackpot winnings, and he already has tickets for the next lottery drawing because he definitely intends to win again. "I plan on it," he said with a laugh. Vicky Lindquist said she initially didn't believe Markham when he called to tell her the good news and was still having a hard time believing it was all real. "It's overwhelming," she said. "I can't believe it. I really can't believe it." |
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| THIRD IN A YEAR FOR IOWA: TICKET SOLD IN WATERLOO WINS $7.5 MILLION HOT LOTTO® JACKPOT
People are going to say there's something in the water here! For the third time in a year, an Iowa Lottery player has won a Hot Lotto jackpot, this time a prize of more than $7.5 million. The jackpot in Saturday's Hot Lotto drawing was won with a ticket purchased at the Kwik Stop, 4335 Texas St. in Waterloo. That follows a jackpot of more than $9 million won in May in Webster City and a jackpot of more than $16.5 million won in December in Des Moines. "You never can predict when another big winner will hit, and Iowa is definitely on a roll," Iowa Lottery CEO Terry Rich said. "It's exciting to see all this luck landing in our state." Iowa Lottery players now have won a total of nine Hot Lotto jackpots. Cynthia Arshad, a clerk working Sunday at the Kwik Stop, said the store had not yet heard from anyone claiming to be the big winner, but she was excited to hear the news. "I never thought our store would ever sell a ticket that size," she said. "I can't wait to see who it is!" The Kwik Stop location will receive a $5,000 bonus from the lottery for selling the jackpot-winning ticket. The winning numbers in Saturday's $7.54 million Hot Lotto jackpot drawing were: 5-12-16-23-24 and Hot Ball 8. The Waterloo ticket matched all six numbers drawn to win the grand prize. Rich encouraged the jackpot winner to seek financial or legal advice before claiming the prize, sign the winning ticket and keep it in a secure place until presenting it to the lottery claim the jackpot. The Waterloo ticket now is the third big-winning ticket that currently is unclaimed in Iowa. Two other big prizes from Des Moines and Ottumwa also are waiting to be claimed. The Hot Lotto jackpot won in December in Des Moines remains unclaimed and the lottery continues to search for that winner. That winning ticket will expire on Dec. 29 of this year if the prize isn't claimed by then. The ticket was purchased at Quik Trip, 4801 NE 14th St. in Des Moines. It matched all six numbers drawn to win the grand prize of $16.5 million in the Hot Lotto drawing on Dec. 29, 2010, the third-largest jackpot ever offered in the game. The winning numbers that night were: 3-12-16-26-33 and Hot Ball 11. And in addition to that big prize, a ticket sold in Ottumwa that won a $1 million Powerball® prize in July also remains unclaimed. That ticket originally matched the first five numbers but missed the Powerball to win a $200,000 prize in the July 23 drawing. But the player who purchased the ticket also added the Power Play® option to the winning play, which multiplied the prize to $1 million. If your ticket matches the first five numbers in a Powerball drawing and you've added the Power Play, the prize you'll win is always $1 million, no matter what the Power Play number is for that drawing. The $1 million-winning ticket was sold at Kum & Go, 1317 E. Mary St. in Ottumwa. The winning numbers in the July 23 Powerball drawing were: 1-7-27-38-48 and Powerball 30. "Someone – or a group of someones – has legitimately won these prizes and we want them to take home their winnings," Rich said. All three big prizes must be claimed at lottery headquarters, 2323 Grand Ave. in Des Moines. If the winners have questions before claiming their prizes, they are welcome to contact the lottery at (515) 725-7900. Winning tickets in the Hot Lotto and Powerball games expire one year from the date of the drawing involved. The seven Iowa Lottery players who have claimed Hot Lotto jackpots are: • Larry Dawson of Webster City, who won a $9.09 million jackpot in May 2011. • John Hall of Indianola, who won a $19.97 million jackpot in January 2007. It was the largest prize offered in the game to date. • Moses Bittok of West Des Moines, who won a $1.89 million jackpot in September 2005. • Danny Good of Des Moines, who won a $1.65 million jackpot in December 2003. • Todd Brobston of Fort Madison, who won a $1.3 million jackpot in November 2003. • Don Sporrer of Denison, who won a $2.7 million prize in December 2002. • Darlene Becker of Dubuque, who won the first jackpot ever claimed in the game, a $2.6 million prize in the drawing on July 10, 2002. The Hot Lotto game began in April 2002, offering Powerball-style play but with easier odds. Hot Lotto players choose five numbers from a pool of 39 and another number, called the Hot Ball, from a pool of 19. The Hot Lotto jackpot starts at $1 million and grows until someone wins it. Tickets in the game cost $1. Hot Lotto drawings are held at about 9:40 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays, just before the Powerball drawings. The Hot Lotto jackpot returns to a guaranteed $1 million for Wednesday's drawing. Hot Lotto tickets are sold in Iowa, 13 other states and the District of Columbia. Since the lottery's start in 1985, its players have won more than $2.7 billion in prizes while the lottery has raised more than $1.3 billion for the state programs that benefit all Iowans. Today, lottery proceeds in Iowa have three main purposes: They provide support for veterans, help for a variety of significant projects through the state General Fund, and backing for the Vision Iowa program, which was implemented to create tourism destinations and community attractions in the state and build and repair schools. |
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| The Mystery Of The Missing Millionaire: Nine Months Later, Still No Word From Hot Lotto® Jackpot Winner Somewhere, perhaps tucked away in a car's glovebox or in a sock drawer at home, is a Hot Lotto ticket worth a whopping $16.5 million – and time is running out for the lucky winner to claim the big prize. Nearly nine months have passed since the jackpot-winning ticket was purchased during the holidays at a Des Moines convenience store along the interstate. No jackpot winner in Iowa Lottery history has ever taken this long to claim the prize, and the jackpot is currently the second-largest unclaimed prize in the country. Iowa Lottery CEO Terry Rich said Wednesday that while several people have come forward hoping that they were the big winner, none of them actually had a ticket to present, and the information they shared does not match the facts about the winning ticket. "It is so sad to see this prize continue to sit there without being claimed," Rich said. "Someone legitimately won this prize and we want them to have the money. It could make a huge difference in someone's life – or several someones' lives." To help draw attention to the unclaimed jackpot and its approaching deadline, the lottery has installed a countdown clock at its headquarters office in Des Moines and programmed a countdown clock that people can track on its website at www.ialottery.com. Rich said that the lottery does not release a ticket's date or time of sale for security reasons, but some other details can be provided. The Hot Lotto jackpot-winning ticket was purchased at Quik Trip, 4801 N.E. 14th St. in Des Moines. The lucky ticket matched all six numbers selected in the Dec. 29 Hot Lotto drawing to win the grand prize. The winning numbers that night were: 3-12-16-26-33 and Hot Ball 11. The $16.5 million jackpot is the third-largest prize ever offered in the game, and the seventh-largest Iowa Lottery prize won to date. Hot Lotto tickets in Iowa expire a year from the date of the drawing in which a prize is won, so Rich emphasized there's still time for the jackpot to be claimed. The prize will expire at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011, if it isn't claimed by then. (The lottery's Validations Office closes at 4 p.m. and the equipment needed to process winning tickets is shut down at that time.) "We've heard from several people who were worried they might have won the prize and somehow misplaced the ticket, but none of them have turned out to be the winner," Rich said. "Remember that you have to present the winning ticket to the lottery to claim the prize." Iowa's unclaimed jackpot is one of two eye-popping lottery prizes that currently are unclaimed in the United States. And just a handful of U.S. lottery prizes that were larger have ever gone unclaimed. In addition to the unclaimed Hot Lotto jackpot, a $21.8 million Megabucks jackpot is currently unclaimed in Oregon. That ticket was sold in Portland for the July 30 Megabucks drawing, and the prize will expire at 5 p.m. on July 30, 2012, if it is not claimed by then. The largest recent U.S. lottery prize that expired without being claimed was a $68 million Mega Millions® ticket purchased in Brooklyn, N.Y., for a December 2002 drawing. Steve Bogle, the Iowa Lottery's vice president of security, said that in addition to checking into the reports the lottery has received, lottery investigators also have worked to possibly identify the jackpot winner by tracking similar ticket purchase patterns. While their work has identified several people who have played the same set of winning numbers, none of them appear to have made the jackpot-winning purchase, Bogle said. Bogle also noted that the jackpot-winning ticket has never been checked on a lottery terminal in Iowa. "Our investigators take every inquiry seriously. We want to award the rightful winner the money," Bogle said. "But these situations also show why we don't release all of the details about winning tickets. Our security department uses that information as part of its investigations and we cannot compromise that work. We must ensure the security and integrity of our games." The jackpot can be claimed in annual, annuitized payments totaling $16.5 million over 25 years or as a one-time, lump-sum payment of nearly $10.8 million. If the prize expires without being claimed, the money for the jackpot will go back to the 15 lotteries that offer Hot Lotto in proportion to the percentage of sales that came from each jurisdiction. For example, if Iowa contributed 20 percent of the sales for that particular jackpot, Iowa would get 20 percent of the money back. How the money would be used depends upon the specific laws and rules in each state. In Iowa, the money from unclaimed prizes goes into the lottery's prize pools for future games. |
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North Country Couple Claims Over $1.5 Million Hot Lotto Prize
A mere eight days after the June 15th Hot Lotto jackpot drawing, Ted and Wanda Lacasse of Berlin, NH have stepped forward to say they are the winners.Ted and Wanda Lacasse, along with their family, appeared before the media today during a press conference held at Twin Mountain Country Store in Twin Mountain, the lucky spot where the ticket was purchased. Officials from the New Hampshire Lottery presented a check for $1,502,341.73 to the Lacasse's, and presented a retailer incentive check for $15,000 to Twin Mountain Country Store. "There is no other feeling like this," said Charlie McIntyre, Executive Director of the New Hampshire Lottery Commission about presenting the ceremonial check to the winners. "We are very excited for the Lacasse's. It truly couldn't have happened to nicer people." Ted, 74, owns Lacasse Paving and Construction and has been married to Wanda, 72, for 52 years. The born and raised Berlin residents have four children, 11 grandchildren and four great-granddaughters. The couple plans to invest their winnings and use the interest to help their four kids have a better financial future. "I'm very happy that I won. I just can't believe it," Ted Lacasse said. "I've never won anything, so when you win like this, it's such a big thing." "I stared at the ticket for 10 minutes saying 'It can't be,'" Wanda Lacasse said of revealing the winning ticket. "I got goose bumps. It was a feeling I've never felt before. It was wonderful. We just stood there and hugged saying 'We won, we really won!'" |
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WEBSTER CITY MAN CLAIMS $9 MILLION HOT LOTTO® JACKPOT
Iowa's latest jackpot winner didn't need to follow the lottery's advice of consulting a financial planner before claiming his big prize. That's because he is a financial planner.Larry Dawson, 58, of Webster City, traveled to lottery headquarters in Des Moines on Monday to claim the $9.09 million jackpot from Saturday night's Hot Lotto® drawing. With him was his entire immediate family: his wife, Kathy, their four grown children, their spouses, and the Dawsons' 10 grandchildren, including the newest member of the family, their 8-week-old granddaughter, Summer. "I work with money, so it's kind of fun to look at the options and see what to do," Dawson said as he claimed his prize. "We've got a lot of plans. I've been in business for 31 years, my sons are in the business, my daughter is in the business and my other daughter is a school teacher. So, it's kind of exciting because we can expand our business and do some of those things that we've kind of been putting off." Dawson's jackpot win was the second in a row for Iowa, following a $16.5 million Hot Lotto jackpot that was won in December with a ticket purchased in Des Moines. That big prize, along with a $1 million Powerball prize won last month in Boone, for now remain unclaimed. Dawson purchased his ticket at Doc's Stop convenience store, 1827 Superior St. in Webster City. The store will receive a $5,000 bonus for selling the jackpot-winning ticket. Dawson said that he and his wife started playing Hot Lotto a few months ago after reading a book that purported to have the secret winning the lottery. His strategy was to buy 19 plays for each drawing to cover all of the Hot Ball options in the game. But he admits he was beginning to doubt the book's advice. "We were just getting to the point where I said, 'You know, this just isn't worth it. I don't think I'm going to do this anymore,'" he said. "But we played one more time and … it's kind of nice!" Dawson, who owns a financial-advisory agency -- TransAmerica Financial Advisors, Larry Dawson and Associates – said he realized he was a big winner Sunday morning when he checked the winning numbers online at the lottery website. Then he called the lottery's winning numbers telephone line just to double-check the details, and after that he and his wife called their family and decided to take a family trip to Des Moines for the night. Dawson joked that it ruined his Mother's Day present for his wife. "I said, 'I did get something else, but there's no use in showing it now,'" he said with a laugh. "Actually, it's a spa treatment and she did like that." Iowa Lottery CEO Terry Rich said that the lottery was happy to meet Dawson and process his claim and hopes to meet the other big winners soon. "We couldn't be happier to see Iowans winning big," Rich said. "It is unusual for us to see this many big unclaimed prizes though, let alone all at one time. We're spreading the word about them in the hopes that the lucky winners will double-check their tickets and come in so we can help them celebrate their big news, too." |
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| THREE MONTHS LATER, STILL NO WORD
FROM HOT LOTTO® JACKPOT WINNER Three months after a $16.5 million Hot Lotto jackpot was won by a ticket purchased at a Des Moines, Iowa convenience store, the prize remains unclaimed. Lottery officials continue to search for the big winner while reminding players to double-check their tickets. "Today marks three months from the date of the drawing where the Hot Lotto jackpot was won," Rich said. "Whoever won this prize has now waited longer to claim the prize than any lottery jackpot winner in Iowa in at least the past decade. And, we know that the $16.5 million-winning ticket has never been checked at one of our terminals, so it's possible the big winner still doesn't know the good news." "The jackpot-winning ticket in Hot Lotto was purchased in Des Moines over the holidays, so it's possible that whoever bought the winning ticket just set it aside somewhere," Rich said. "And, a lot of other big prizes have been won in Iowa during the past week, so it's a good time to check all your tickets. You never know – it might be you." The Hot Lotto jackpot-winning ticket was purchased at Quik Trip, 4801 N.E. 14th St. in Des Moines. The lucky ticket matched all six numbers selected in the Dec. 29 Hot Lotto drawing to win the grand prize. The winning numbers that night were: 3-12-16-26-33 and Hot Ball 11. The $16.5 million jackpot is the third-largest prize ever offered in the game, and the seventh-largest Iowa Lottery prize won to date. Rich said that the lottery does not release a ticket's date or time of sale for security reasons, but some other details can be provided. The jackpot-winning play was on a ticket that spanned five Hot Lotto drawings from Dec. 25 to Jan. 8, he said. Hot Lotto tickets in Iowa expire a year from the date of the drawing in which a prize is won, so Rich emphasized there's still plenty of time for the jackpot to be claimed. It's just unusual that the lottery hasn't heard from anyone yet, he said. "We're checking our system records and going back over our procedures from past jackpot claims to see if we can help narrow down just who the big winner might be," Rich said. "Someone legitimately won this prize and we want them to have the money. We've heard from several people who were worried they'd won the prize and somehow misplaced the ticket, but none of them have turned out to be the winner. You must present the winning ticket to the lottery in order to claim the prize." The Hot Lotto jackpot from Dec. 29 can be claimed in annual, annuitized payments totaling $16.5 million over 25 years or as a one-time, lump-sum payment of nearly $10.8 million. Rich said that in addition to its other efforts to find the winner, the Iowa Lottery is working with surrounding lotteries and the 14 other lotteries in the Hot Lotto game to help spread the word about the unclaimed jackpot. Anyone in a state adjoining Iowa should check their ticket if it was purchased in Iowa, he said. "The holidays were better to someone than they realized," Rich said with a chuckle. |
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| South Dakota Ticket Takes $10.02 Million Prize A single ticket sold in Yankton matched all five numbers and the Hot Ball in the Wednesday night, May 26, 2010, drawing to win the $10.02 million Hot Lotto jackpot. The winning numbers for the drawing were 1, 20, 21, 29, and 38; the Hot Ball was 4. The jackpot winner has the option of receiving the $10,020,000 jackpot as an annuity paid over 24 years (25 payments) or taking a one-time cash payment of $6,485,436. This is the second time the Hot Lotto jackpot has been won in South Dakota; it was first won on June 15, 2005, when Luverne and Shirley Vehle of Sioux Falls won $9,130,000. |
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Kansas Resident Finds Forgotten Hot Lotto Ticket – Wins $10,000!
After purchasing a Hot Lotto ticket for the October 28, 2009 drawing, Thomas Stoppel put his ticket in a basket at home and forgot about it. On March 21, Stoppel happened to see the ticket still lying in the basket and decided to look up the winning numbers on the Kansas Lottery’s website.“We were completely shocked when we realized we had won,” said Stoppel. “Even though we missed winning the jackpot by one number, we’re very blessed to have won $10,000.” Stoppel won the $10,000 cash prize by matching the first five numbers on his Hot Lotto ticket, which he claimed on April 16. “What is funny is, I bought Thomas a fake $10,000 winning lottery ticket at Christmastime,” said Stoppel’s wife Glenda. “Before he could get the ticket scratched, my son Justin gave it away that it was fake. We had no idea that we actually did have a $10,000 winning ticket just a few feet away, lying in the basket!” When the Stoppels tried telling Justin that they had won $10,000 playing Hot Lotto, he didn’t believe them. “He said, ‘Yeah, right. It’s a fake ticket,’” said Glenda. The Stoppels, who hosted a foreign exchange student a few years ago from Germany, plan to use their winnings toward a trip oversees to see her. The winning ticket was purchased at Ampride – Hillsboro, located at 512 E. D St., in Hillsboro. |
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New Mexico Family Claims $3.6 Million Hot Lotto® Jackpot
A retired couple from Ruidoso and their two daughters from Austin, Texas claimed a $3.54 million Hot Lotto® jackpot from the New Mexico Lottery. The winners are Bill and Janet Swann and daughters Lisa Swann and Stacey Swann. They elected to take the prize in a cash payment of $2.24 million rather than the annuity option of 30 payments over 29 years.Bill Swann purchased five wagers about eight hours before the Jan. 16th winning drawing. He went to bed a winner, but didn’t know it until the next day when he checked the winning numbers posted on the lottery’s website. One of the five wagers matched all the winning 6 numbers. “I said to myself, “Well, looky here.’” The Swanns immediately called their daughters, who never doubted that their father was telling the truth. “He’s not a practical joker,” said Stacey Swann. "He’s crazy lucky,” added Lisa Swann. With their newfound wealth, the family plans to take some exotic fishing and hunting trips. The Swann daughters will put some of the prize aside for retirement. “The Hot Lotto game has been a winner for New Mexicans whether they’re players or students attending college on Legislative Lottery Scholarships,” said Lottery CEO Tom Romero. “I congratulate the Swanns on their very good fortune and thank them for their support of lottery games. Our players help make college a reality for New Mexico’s students.” |
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| Minnesota Resident Wins $1.15 million Hot Lotto® Jackpot Dean Alexander of Blaine won the $1.15 million Hot Lotto jackpot in the Dec. 2, 2009 drawing. On his way to Cub Foods on Dec. 2, he remembered that he hadn’t purchased his two tickets for that night’s Hot Lotto drawing — one with the numbers he always plays and one quick pick. He bought the tickets and didn’t think about them again for two days. Alexander checked his tickets on Friday morning (Dec. 4). He logged on to the Lottery’s Web site “and started matching the numbers one for one.” Not believing what he saw, “I shut the Web site down and walked away. I opened it up again and checked my numbers again one for one,” Alexander recalled. “I was in disbelief.” The quick-pick ticket matched all 5 winning white ball numbers and the Hot Ball to win the $1.15 million jackpot. Alexander selected the cash option payment of $741,457 before tax withholding. He is Minnesota’s eighth Hot Lotto jackpot winner. Cub Foods at 4205 Pheasant Ridge Drive in Blaine sold the winning ticket. |
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New Mexico Man Claims $1.1 Million Hot Lotto® Jackpot  A New Mexico Lottery player from Elida - a village in eastern New Mexico with a population of 183 people - beat the odds of 1 in nearly 11 million to win a Hot Lotto® jackpot of $1.1 million.Aurbra King, 71, had the nation’s only ticket matching the winning numbers from the Wednesday, November 18th drawing. King discovered his prize nearly 48 hours after the drawing when his children told him that a Friday morning TV newscast had announced that the New Mexico Lottery was looking for a jackpot winner. King, who said, “Things like this, they don’t get me too excited,” elected to take the prize’s pre-tax cash option of approximately $720,000, which he plans to share with a large family that includes 19 grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Playing the same six numbers he had been playing for several months, King purchased his lucky ticket at Allsup’s Store No. 287 in Elida. “Today, Elida is the luckiest place in New Mexico,” said Lottery CEO Tom Romero. “I congratulate Mr. King on his extraordinary win and thank him and all our players for supporting lottery games and the Legislative Lottery Scholarship program.” |
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$6.78 Million Hot Lotto Prize Claimed The winning Hot Lotto ticket worth $6.7 million from the Nov. 7, 2009 drawing has been claimed at Oklahoma Lottery headquarters. The JJ Trust has come forward as the beneficiary represented by Dawn D. Hallman, of the law firm Hallman & Associates, P.C. in Norman, Okla. The JJ Trust requested the lump-sum payment option and received approximately $3 million after taxes. The winning jackpot ticket was sold at Homeland, 1100 West Main Street in Norman. |
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Kansas Resident Collects $10,000 Hot Lotto Win  An apprentice lineman for Westar has become an expert at winning a big lottery prize. Joseph Koelzer matched the first five numbers in the August 29 Hot Lotto drawing, winning himself a $10,000 cash prize. “I’m in shock!” said the 24-year-old Onaga resident. Koelzer’s ticket was a $10 Quick Pick.Koelzer, who is single, collects and restores International Harvestor tractors as a hobby. He’s not sure how he’s going to spend all of his prize money, but he does know where some of it will go. “I have about 40 tractors in my collection right now,” said the lucky winner. “And I’m going to buy at least one more with my prize money.” Koelzer bought his Hot Lotto ticket the evening of August 29 at Casey’s General Store 1405, located at 404 Main Street in Americus. Koelzer says he will continue to play Hot Lotto, Powerball and Super Kansas Cash, even after this big win. “My hair cuttin’ lady said I should keep on playin’,” Koelzer said. “So I guess I will.” |
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Delaware Lottery Player Claims $16.6M Hot Lotto Jackpot A lucky Delaware Lottery player and his wife have come forward to claim the first HOT LOTTO® jackpot in the state’s brief history with the game. They picked a terrific time to take home the top prize, as it had grown to $16,690,000 and become the second-largest Hot Lotto jackpot on record. The win stemmed from an Aug. 22 drawing. Robert Crowther said his wife was fortunate enough to purchase the winning ticket at a gas station convenience store located in Claymont, Delaware. “It’s close to where we live and we often play the lottery in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware,” said the 66-year-old retiree. The couple resides in Aston, Pa., and has been in the area for many years. “She only purchased one Hot Lotto ticket, but I guess it was the right one.” “Hot Lotto may be a relatively new offering in the State of Delaware, but we are thrilled the Delaware Lottery was able to award its first Hot Lotto jackpot so quickly,” said Wayne Lemons, Director, Delaware Lottery. “The game first went on sale here in January of 2008, but we’re sure this big win will only spur interest.” “My wife came home from the store after trying to check it and thought we’d only won $16,000,” Crowther remembered. “I took another look at it and was sure that we had all the numbers right but I still didn’t know how much it was worth because I didn’t know if there had been any other winners in the drawing. It was thrilling to hear that we’d hit for the whole jackpot! My first reaction was: ‘No more bills.’ I think my wife is still in a state of shock.” Crowther opted to take the jackpot as a lump sum payment of $10,774,362, rather than a deferred annuity. He previously worked at the Chrysler plant in Newark, retiring in 2001 after 30-years on the job. Among the first people to learn about the good news was the bartender at the local bar the couple owns. “After we told her we figured there was no point in trying to keep the news quiet, so why not just get out there and share the good news with the rest of the world? She’s probably told almost everyone already.” For now the couple plans to pay off bills including car payments and their daughter’s mortgage. “This is a real life changer,” said Crowther. “We’re going to buy a house, but I don’t think we know what we’ll do with the rest of the money just yet.” This was the couple’s second significant Delaware Lottery win, as they’d also cashed in for $5,000 in a 1986 drawing. The winning ticket was sold at VB Petroleum, which operates as Gulf Express, located at 3310 Philadelphia Pike in Claymont. |
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Hot Lotto Winner Remains Calm about $10,000 Win
 “I was calm because I’m an old man now, and I didn’t want to have a heart attack,” said longtime Hot Lotto player Robert Gray. “I was born in 1926,” continued the Rockville, Maryland resident who correctly matched five numbers to win $10,000 in the July 15, 2009 drawing. With subdued excitement, Gray stated that he has been playing Hot Lotto since the D.C. Lottery offered it to players in 2004 and plans to pay a few bills with his prize money. Gray uses the advanced play option and usually plays the same numbers. He said he will also continue to spend his time with his family. A father of eight, Gray has grandchildren and great grandchildren who he visits regularly. “There is always someplace to go,” Gray noted, including to a D.C. Lottery retailer to buy more lottery tickets. Gray purchased his winning ticket at Cork ‘N Bottle, 7421 Georgia Avenue, N.W. |
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Oklahoma Resident Cashes In Playing Hot Lotto with $10,000 Win
 Travis Olive of Stilwell is $10,000 richer from playing Hot Lotto. He learned of his win on Sunday when he called the Oklahoma Lottery Commission headquarters to get the winning numbers from the Saturday, August 1st drawing.Olive purchased his ticket at the Fiesta Mart at 300 S. 2nd in Stilwell and received his winning numbers through Quick Pick. “I always buy my tickets there because they’re nice and friendly,” Olive said. For now, Olive plans on paying off his Blazer. |
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Oklahoma Man Wins Playing Hot Lotto with Sizzler
Dustin Sheppard of Ada is celebrating his Hot Lotto win of $30,000. Sheppard tripled his original $10K prize by adding the Sizzler option for only $1. “Winning a prize this large is one of those things you think is too good to be true,” he said, adding that he regularly plays the Sizzler multiplier. Sheppard purchased his ticket from T&T Quick Stop at 100 W. Main in Roff. He doesn’t have any immediate plans for his winnings but said he will probably be spending most of it on his children. |
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