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D E C E M B E R 2 0 0 7 / J A N U A R Y 2 0 0 8<br />

News about winners, scratch-off prizes, new games and more!<br />

Scratch Off a Little<br />

<strong>Holiday</strong> <strong>Cheer</strong>!<br />

It’s that time again... time to hang the mistletoe, string the twinkling<br />

lights around the house and rack your brain figuring out what to buy<br />

your hard-to-please loved ones for the holidays. Well, think no further.<br />

This holiday season, the <strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Lottery</strong> is introducing fun new tickets<br />

with big prizes that make great gifts!<br />

Check out this year’s colorful holiday suite of games:<br />

The $1 Stocking Stuffer ticket gives players a chance to win up to $1,000.<br />

The $2 Candy Cane Cash game offers a top prize of $30,000, and 10 chances<br />

to win. The $5 Merry Money game offers a top prize of $50,000 with 20<br />

chances to win on one ticket! For those who believe in lucky number 7, the<br />

Cool 7’s ticket—which sells for $7—offers a top prize of $77,777. <strong>Holiday</strong><br />

Lucky Times 10 is a $10 game with a top prize of $100,000. For those who<br />

love going after big prizes, spending $20 on a $1 Million <strong>Holiday</strong> Winnings<br />

ticket could make you or a loved one a millionaire!<br />

Don’t forget, holiday games make great stocking<br />

stuffers. So spread some holiday cheer the <strong>Texas</strong><br />

<strong>Lottery</strong> way by giving the Games of <strong>Texas</strong>!<br />

OVER35MiLLiONWiNNERS<br />

I N A U G U S T / S E P T E M B E R 2 0 0 7


Charleen Austin of Lubbock is a notorious practical joker, so much so<br />

that when she scratched a <strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Lottery</strong> ® $1 Million Extravaganza ticket and<br />

saw a huge prize, Austin immediately started looking around for her friends,<br />

thinking they’d slipped her a phony winning ticket in<br />

their efforts to dish out some payback.<br />

“I just knew my friends Mac and Linda were<br />

somehow playing a joke on me” Austin said. “I didn’t<br />

want to get out of the car jumping up and down<br />

if they were capturing it with a camera.”<br />

Austin purchased the ticket at the Raff and<br />

Hall Family Park located at 3404 IH 27<br />

in Lubbock, where she often shops. She<br />

scratched the ticket while in her car.<br />

Austin says her mind has been spinning,<br />

already spending her prize a million<br />

different ways in her head!<br />

Robert W. Willingham of Dallas gets $22 from his wife every Tuesday<br />

and Thursday to buy Mega Millions ® tickets and a soda. The third week in<br />

September was no different, except that this time, the Mega Millions Quick<br />

Pick ticket he bought had five of the six numbers selected in the September<br />

21 drawing. Since Willingham also purchased the Megaplier ® , his ticket<br />

was worth a cool $1 million!<br />

As a result of where Willingham decided to hide the ticket, the prize got<br />

even cooler—downright frosty, in fact.<br />

“The banks were closed over the weekend and we couldn’t get to the<br />

safe deposit box,” Willingham said. “So we put the ticket in a baggie<br />

and stashed it in the icebox.”<br />

On Sunday, Willingham had to go out<br />

to tend to some errands, so his wife,<br />

Vickie, got icebox duty. “I got to stay<br />

home to guard the freezer,” she said.<br />

“It was ok, though.”<br />

Willingham says he’s going to<br />

buy his wife something she<br />

wants with his winnings.<br />

“Vickie is getting a new<br />

car,” he said. “We’re<br />

going to save the rest<br />

for a house project in<br />

the future.”<br />

Willingham bought the<br />

ticket at Red Beer & Wine at<br />

4218 W. Lovers Lane, Dallas.


Dale Slape of El Paso was with his son in the Country Boy Store #1 in El<br />

Paso talking to the store clerks about their past winning experiences.<br />

Slape decided to purchase a State Fair of <strong>Texas</strong> scratch-off ticket and then<br />

went out to his car to scratch it. Slape scratched the top half, his son the<br />

bottom half. His son told Slape he had won something. Slape glanced at<br />

the ticket, and initially thought it bore a $50 prize. On closer examination,<br />

he saw it was a $50,000 winner! The father and son<br />

screamed, jumped out of the car and hugged each<br />

other, then went<br />

back inside the<br />

store to share<br />

their good news<br />

with the clerks.<br />

Slape could<br />

only describe<br />

the experience<br />

as “unbelievable!” He said he would use<br />

some of the winnings to help a friend pay for<br />

a trip to Las Vegas to see a NASCAR race.<br />

D E C E M B E R 2 0 0 7 / J A N U A R Y 2 0 0 8<br />

Drawing results are available right<br />

after the Day and Night draws at<br />

www.txlottery.org<br />

Webcast link on www.txlottery.org<br />

Watch live streaming video of Lotto <strong>Texas</strong><br />

Wednesdays and Saturdays at<br />

10:12 PM CT, and see past drawings<br />

through our “on demand” feature.<br />

DO YOU THINK YOU’VE WON?<br />

If you believe you are holding any of the following:<br />

• a possible Lotto <strong>Texas</strong> ® or Mega Millions jackpot ticket<br />

• a possible winning on-line ticket valued at $1 million and above<br />

• a possible winning instant ticket paid as an annuity<br />

• a possible winning instant ticket valued at $1 million and above<br />

Please call 1-800-37-LOTTO<br />

prior to traveling to Austin for processing.<br />

IN AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2007<br />

Scratch-Offs . . . . . . . . $282,673,639<br />

Pick 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . $22,773,900<br />

Cash Five ® . . . . . . . . . . . .$6,277,306<br />

<strong>Texas</strong> Two Step ® . . . . . . . .$3,807,593<br />

Lotto <strong>Texas</strong> ® . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,684,780<br />

Mega Millions ® . . . . . . . . .$4,909,080<br />

TOTAL: $323,126,298<br />

NOTICE: Game closing procedures will begin when all top prizes have been claimed. A scratch-off<br />

game may continue to be sold even when all the top prizes have been claimed. For current information<br />

on prizes remaining in a scratch-off game, call 1-800-37-LOTTO. Must be 18 years of age or<br />

older to purchase a <strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Lottery</strong> ticket. The number of prizes in a game is approximate based on<br />

the number of tickets ordered. The number of actual prizes available in a game may vary based on<br />

number of tickets manufactured, testing, distribution, sales and number of prizes claimed.<br />

See your local <strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Lottery</strong> retailer for more details or visit the<br />

<strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Lottery</strong> Commission’s Web site at www.txlottery.org.


Region 1<br />

Region 2<br />

Region 3<br />

Julie<br />

Richards<br />

Abilene<br />

Find the 9’s<br />

$999<br />

Brian<br />

Spacek<br />

Georgetown<br />

Lotto <strong>Texas</strong><br />

$2,376<br />

Andy<br />

Malian<br />

Richardson<br />

Run the Table<br />

$10,000<br />

Carla<br />

Karl<br />

Bowie<br />

Cash Five ®<br />

$30,412<br />

Ricky<br />

Benavides<br />

Alice<br />

State Fair of <strong>Texas</strong><br />

$2,000<br />

A. George<br />

Natsis III<br />

Edna<br />

Mega Millions<br />

$10,000<br />

Phuoc<br />

Dong<br />

Amarillo<br />

Daily 4 <br />

$2,629<br />

Latoya<br />

Golden<br />

Midland<br />

$130 Million Spectacular<br />

$2,000<br />

Gerardo<br />

Ramirez<br />

Dallas<br />

Bonus Cashword<br />

$5,000<br />

Young Su<br />

Son<br />

Denton<br />

Money Mania<br />

$1,000<br />

Lourdes<br />

Rodriguez<br />

Corpus Christi<br />

Roll the Dice<br />

$1,000<br />

Johnny<br />

Hu<br />

Spring<br />

Daily 4<br />

$5,207<br />

Carlous<br />

Rhodes<br />

El Paso<br />

State Fair of <strong>Texas</strong><br />

$2,000<br />

Loc<br />

Tran<br />

San Antonio<br />

Lotto <strong>Texas</strong><br />

$2,590<br />

Diana<br />

Sanders<br />

Mesquite<br />

Run The Table<br />

$35,000<br />

Lawrence M.<br />

Hickman<br />

Longview<br />

Mega Millions<br />

$10,000<br />

Gilberto<br />

Castillo Jr.<br />

Laredo<br />

Crocodile Cash<br />

$1,000<br />

Barry<br />

Cobbs<br />

New Caney<br />

Break the Bank<br />

$1,000<br />

Kasey<br />

Pompa<br />

Levelland<br />

$130 Million Spectacular<br />

$50,000<br />

Vanessa<br />

Alaniz<br />

Hobson<br />

Billiards<br />

$1,000<br />

Inez<br />

Blair<br />

Fort Worth<br />

Deal or No Deal <br />

$10,000<br />

Hau<br />

Nguyen<br />

Grand Prairie<br />

Deal or No Deal<br />

$1,000<br />

MaryHelen D.<br />

Woods<br />

Raymondville<br />

Lotto <strong>Texas</strong><br />

$2,020<br />

Theresa<br />

Smith<br />

Houston<br />

Daily 4<br />

$2,659

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