Holiday Cheer! - Texas Lottery - Txlottery
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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