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<strong>August</strong> | <strong>September</strong> 2007<br />
News about winners, scratch-off prizes,<br />
new games and more!<br />
COMING SOON !<br />
Daily 4 On-line Game with<br />
Sum It Up Add-On Feature!<br />
Starting in <strong>September</strong>, <strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Lottery</strong> ® players will have yet another on-line<br />
game option to choose from; it’s called Daily 4 <br />
and it features twice-daily<br />
drawings, six days a week! An add-on feature of Daily 4, called Sum It Up ,<br />
will offer players even more opportunities to win.<br />
Sales for Daily 4<br />
and Sum It Up are slated to begin on <strong>September</strong> 30, with<br />
the first drawings to be held at 12:27 p.m. and 10:12 p.m. on October 1.<br />
Daily 4<br />
should especially appeal to Pick 3 <br />
players, a game that has grown<br />
steadily in popularity and sales since its introduction in 1993. The biggest<br />
difference between the games, aside from the extra number, is that Daily<br />
4<br />
offers even larger potential prize amounts and more exciting ways to play<br />
and win!<br />
Similar in many ways to the current Pick 3 game, Daily 4<br />
will offer a<br />
50-cent minimum play, twelve drawings a week (six day and six night<br />
drawings) and a multi-draw ticket-purchase option. Daily 4<br />
will be played<br />
just like Pick 3, except that players will select four numbers between<br />
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Over 33 Million Winners<br />
in April/May 2007!<br />
33 MILLION WINNERS!
When Dennis Damian Anugwom’s mother Grace told him to rest<br />
after working early into Sunday morning on Mother’s Day, he did what a good son<br />
does—he obeyed her. Anugwom, of Houston, got some rest and then headed<br />
to his mother’s house to join his brothers.<br />
On the way, he stopped at the Shop N Go Food Store located at 6601 S. Gessner Drive<br />
in Houston and bought three $1,000,000 Cash Blast<br />
scratch-offs. “When I got the<br />
third ticket,” Anugwom said, “I put it in my pocket and left the store.”<br />
Anugwom scratched the $20 ticket in his car, and could barely believe it when he<br />
uncovered a $1 million prize. “I couldn’t breathe and I couldn’t smile even though<br />
I wanted to, so I called my mother. When she answered, I couldn’t speak to her,<br />
and then I started crying, which scared her.”<br />
Grace Anugwom gave the phone to Dennis’s oldest brother, Innocent, who was able<br />
to extract the story, and then burst into laughter as Dennis continued crying.<br />
“Your son is a millionaire,” Innocent told<br />
his mother.<br />
Anugwom will take his mother to visit<br />
his 9-year-old son in Jamaica as<br />
soon as possible. Later this summer,<br />
they plan to go to Nigeria to see<br />
Anugwom’s father, whom he<br />
hasn’t seen in 14 years.
The <strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Lottery</strong> conducted a Mega Millions ®<br />
promotion from March 25 through April 14, during<br />
which players who spent $10 or more on one<br />
Mega Millions<br />
ticket received two Mega Millions<br />
Quick Picks free.<br />
The biggest winner during the promotion was<br />
Eduardo Oviedo of San Antonio,<br />
who won $250,000 on one of the two<br />
promotional Mega Millions<br />
tickets he received<br />
after buying $10 worth of Mega Millions<br />
tickets<br />
at the West Avenue Express, 3202 West Avenue in<br />
San Antonio.<br />
One of Oviedo’s free Quick Picks matched fi veout-of-six<br />
numbers in the March 30 Mega Millions<br />
drawing!<br />
“I got a big birthday present from the lottery with those tickets,” said Oviedo said,<br />
who turned 62 the day he received the two free Quick Picks. “Even though the prize<br />
was on the free ticket, I still say you won’t win unless you buy a ticket.”<br />
“This prize will make me debt-free,” Oviedo said. “I’m also going to pay off my<br />
mortgage and buy my wife the new house we’ve been talking about for some time.”<br />
Oviedo also said he also plans to help care for an ailing family member, and to<br />
tithe to his church.<br />
Calvin McFadden of Sherman has<br />
been playing Cash Five ® for the last four years<br />
with great success, which he attributes to a<br />
system he’s worked out. The March 31 top<br />
prize of $32,769 is the second he’s won using<br />
his plan.<br />
“Ever since I retired four years ago, I’ve been<br />
researching the numbers that are drawn in<br />
Cash Five,” he said. “I’ve studied the frequency<br />
of the numbers that come up, and with that,<br />
I’ve been able to choose numbers that have<br />
been proven winners for me.”<br />
McFadden says he was attracted to Cash Five<br />
because it has the best odds of all the on-line games. For him, the combination of<br />
the odds and researching the numbers has really paid off.<br />
“With the odds of one in 435,897 for winning the top prize and even better odds<br />
of 1 in 88 for winning $3, it’s rare that I don’t win something, even if it’s only two<br />
dollars,” he said.<br />
The last time McFadden won the top prize was in <strong>September</strong> 2005. He said he’s<br />
matched four-out-of-fi ve numbers on 23 tickets since he started using his system.<br />
McFadden purchased the tickets at Driggs Discount Liquor #3, located at 3000 South<br />
Woodlawn in Denison.
Daily 4 with Sum It Up<br />
(cont. from cover)<br />
0 and 9. They also get to choose their play type and wager amount. There<br />
are 10,000 possible combinations ranging from 0000 to 9999.<br />
Another exciting aspect of Daily 4<br />
is Sum It Up, which allows players<br />
the chance to win a prize even if they don’t win the Daily 4<br />
game. For<br />
an additional wager (50 cents to $5), players can win if the sum of their<br />
numbers is the same as the sum of the winning numbers drawn in the<br />
applicable drawing. For example, if the player’s numbers are 1-3-5-7 (sum =<br />
16) and the numbers drawn are 3-4-6-3 (sum = 16), the player wins if they<br />
purchased the Sum It Up feature, even though their numbers did not match<br />
those drawn.<br />
Along with Daily 4, Sum It Up<br />
will make its debut in <strong>September</strong> and, later this<br />
year in November, it will be available as an add-on feature to Pick 3 as well.<br />
Daily 4, with or without the Sum It Up add-on feature, offers a variety<br />
of play types.<br />
Ask your retailer or check the <strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Lottery</strong>’s Web site at www.txlottery.org<br />
for more information about Daily 4<br />
with Sum It Up, the exciting new game<br />
and add-on feature coming soon from the <strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Lottery</strong>!<br />
To paraphrase an old saying, neither snow<br />
nor rain, etc., can dampen the excitement<br />
of winning big on a <strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Lottery</strong> ticket!<br />
Susan Dickerson of Vernon<br />
was in her living room when she<br />
scratched off a prize on a $1,000,000<br />
Mega Bucks<br />
ticket.<br />
“I ran outside in my socks in the<br />
rain to where my husband was<br />
and started jumping up and down.<br />
He told me to sit down and talk<br />
about what we need to do, and<br />
I said ‘I won $10,000!’”<br />
Dickerson said the very fi rst thing<br />
she’d do with her winnings was buy<br />
her three sons some new shoes. She<br />
bought her winning ticket at Grocery<br />
Sack located at 4016 Wilbarger in Vernon.
Drawing results are available<br />
right after the Day and Night<br />
draws at<br />
www.txlottery.org<br />
<strong>August</strong> | <strong>September</strong> 2007 W i n n i n g !<br />
GamesClosing<br />
Call Date: 4/20/07 Close Date: 6/04/07<br />
End Validations: 12/01/07<br />
#693 Go For The Gold Odds: 1 in 2.94<br />
#731 Money Maker Odds: 1 in 3.76<br />
#741 BlackJack Attack Odds: 1 in 3.66<br />
Call Date: 5/04/07 Close Date: 6/18/07<br />
End Validations: 12/15/07<br />
#742 $1,000,000 Mega Bucks Odds: 1 in 3.02<br />
#783 <strong>Texas</strong> Trails Odds: 1 in 4.94<br />
Webcast link on<br />
www.txlottery.org<br />
Watch live streaming video of on-line game<br />
drawings Monday through Saturday at<br />
12:27 PM and 10:12 PM CT, and see past<br />
drawings through our “on demand” feature.<br />
DO YOU THINK<br />
YOU’VE WON?<br />
If you believe you are holding<br />
any of the following:<br />
• a possible Lotto <strong>Texas</strong> ® or<br />
Mega Millions jackpot ticket<br />
• a possible winning on-line ticket<br />
valued at $1 million and above<br />
• a possible winning instant ticket<br />
paid as an annuity<br />
• a possible winning instant ticket<br />
valued at $1 million and above<br />
Please call 1-800-37-LOTTO<br />
prior to traveling to Austin for processing.<br />
Call Date: 5/18/07 Close Date: 7/02/07<br />
End Validations: 12/29/07<br />
#624 4’s Galore Odds: 1 in 4.65<br />
#669 25 Grand Odds: 1 in 4.83<br />
#689 Triple BlackJack Odds: 1 in 4.10<br />
#734 Stacks Of Cash Odds: 1 in 4.26<br />
#744 Fabulous Fortune Odds: 1 in 3.57<br />
#767 Lone Star Riches Odds: 1 in 3.49<br />
#770 Queen Of Hearts Tripler Odds: 1 in 4.13<br />
#773 Lucky Dog Doubler Odds: 1 in 4.54<br />
#821 9’s In A Line Odds: 1 in 4.68<br />
Call Date: 5/25/07 Close Date: 7/09/07<br />
End Validations: 1/05/08<br />
#771 Big Money Bingo Odds: 1 in 3.61<br />
Call Date: 6/08/07 Close Date: 7/23/07<br />
End Validations: 1/19/08<br />
#746 Wild 7’s Odds: 1 in 3.21<br />
NOTICE: A scratch-off game may continue to be sold even when all the top prizes have been claimed. For current information on prizes remaining in a scratch-off game,<br />
call 1-800-37-LOTTO. Must be 18 years of age or older to purchase a <strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Lottery</strong> ticket. The number of prizes in a game is approximate based on the number of tickets<br />
ordered. The number of actual prizes available in a game may vary based on 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 <strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Lottery</strong> Commission’s Web site at www.txlottery.org.<br />
PrizesPaid in April / May 2007<br />
Scratch-Offs ........................................................................................................ $297,217,374<br />
Pick 3 ................................................................................................................. $22,681,500<br />
Cash Five ® .............................................................................................................. $6,321,230<br />
<strong>Texas</strong> Two Step ® ..................................................................................................... $3,897,781<br />
Lotto <strong>Texas</strong> ® ......................................................................................................... $48,103,428<br />
Mega Millions ® ....................................................................................................... $5,689,124<br />
Total: $383,910,437
Region 1 Region 2 Region 3<br />
Jerry<br />
Perry<br />
Abilene<br />
Mega Millions ®<br />
$40,000<br />
Maria<br />
Vigil<br />
El Paso<br />
Aces High<br />
$1,000<br />
Cruz<br />
Rangel<br />
Odessa<br />
Pick 3<br />
$2,900<br />
Willie<br />
Maddox<br />
Memphis<br />
<strong>Texas</strong> Trails<br />
$25,000<br />
Afonso<br />
Araujo<br />
New Braunfels<br />
Mega Millions<br />
$600<br />
Roger<br />
Woolsey<br />
Weir<br />
Cash Blast<br />
$1,000<br />
Tyler<br />
Henthorn<br />
Lubbock<br />
Mega Millions<br />
$10,002<br />
Linda<br />
Hallmark<br />
Bonham<br />
Bonus Cashword<br />
$35,000<br />
Marcus<br />
Neal<br />
Jacksonville<br />
<strong>Texas</strong> Two Step ®<br />
$1,374<br />
Jimmy<br />
Ramsey<br />
Rusk<br />
$250,000 Bingo<br />
$10,000<br />
Stanley<br />
Conley<br />
Fort Worth<br />
7-11-21<br />
$1,000<br />
Jessica<br />
Rivera<br />
Wichita Falls<br />
Holiday Cash<br />
$1,000<br />
Deborah<br />
Ford<br />
Bonham<br />
<strong>Texas</strong> Trails<br />
$1,000<br />
Dwane<br />
Washington Jr.<br />
Fort Worth<br />
$250,000 Bingo<br />
$750<br />
Andrea<br />
Guillory<br />
Beaumont<br />
Magic Numbers<br />
$25,000<br />
Arturo<br />
Martinez<br />
Laredo<br />
Break The Bank <br />
$1,000<br />
Mark<br />
Ballew<br />
Sandia<br />
Break the Bank<br />
$1,000<br />
Andy<br />
Cruz<br />
Harlingen<br />
$130 Million<br />
Spectacular<br />
$2,000<br />
Lashaundrea<br />
Harris<br />
Victoria<br />
7-11-21<br />
$1,000<br />
Maria E.<br />
Montoya<br />
Katy<br />
7-11-21<br />
$1,000<br />
Luis E.<br />
Guzman<br />
Palos Hills, IL<br />
Lotto <strong>Texas</strong> ®<br />
$2,174<br />
P L AY R E S P O N S I B L Y.
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