DECEMBER 2007/JANUARY 2008 News about winners, scratch-off prizes, new games and more! Julie Phuoc Carlous Kasey Region 1 Richards Dong Rhodes Pompa Abilene Amarillo El Paso Levelland Find the 9’s Daily 4™ State Fair of Texas $130 Million Spectacular $999 $2,629 $2,000 $50,000 Scratch Off a Little Holiday Cheer! It’s that time again... time to hang the mistletoe, string the twinkling Brian Latoya Loc Vanessa lights around the house and rack your brain figuring out what to buy Spacek Golden Tran Alaniz Georgetown Midland San Antonio Hobson your hard-to-please loved ones for the holidays. Well, think no further. Lotto Texas $130 Million Spectacular Lotto Texas Billiards This holiday season, the Texas Lottery is introducing fun new tickets $2,376 $2,000 $2,590 $1,000 with big prizes that make great gifts! Check out this year’s colorful holiday suite of games: The $1 Stocking Stuffer ticket gives players a chance to win up to $1,000. The $2 Candy Cane Cash game offers a top prize of $30,000, and 10 chances to win. The $5 Merry Money game offers a top prize of $50,000 with 20 Andy Gerardo Diana Inez chances to win on one ticket! For those who believe in lucky number 7, the Region 2 Malian Ramirez Sanders Blair Richardson Dallas Mesquite Fort Worth Cool 7’s ticket—which sells for $7—offers a top prize of $77,777. Holiday Run the Table Bonus Cashword Run The Table Deal or No Deal™ $10,000 $5,000 $35,000 $10,000 Lucky Times 10 is a $10 game with a top prize of $100,000. For those who love going after big prizes, spending $20 on a $1 Million Holiday Winnings ticket could make you or a loved one a millionaire! Don’t forget, holiday games make great stocking stuffers. So spread some holiday cheer the Texas Carla Young Su Lawrence M. Hau Lottery way by giving the Games of Texas! Karl Son Hickman Nguyen Bowie Denton Longview Grand Prairie Cash Five® Money Mania Mega Millions Deal or No Deal $30,412 $1,000 $10,000 $1,000 Ricky Lourdes Gilberto MaryHelen D. Region 3 Benavides Rodriguez Castillo Jr. Woods Alice Corpus Christi Laredo Raymondville State Fair of Texas Roll the Dice Crocodile Cash Lotto Texas $2,000 $1,000 $1,000 $2,020 A. George Johnny Barry Theresa Natsis III Hu Cobbs Smith Edna Spring New Caney Houston Mega Millions Daily 4 Break the Bank Daily 4 $10,000 $5,207 $1,000 $2,659 OVER35MiLLiONWiNNERS IN AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2007 8435_DecJan_GTP.indd 2 11/13/07 9:00:57 AM Charleen Austin of Lubbock is a notorious practical joker, so much so that when she scratched a Texas Lottery® $1 Million Extravaganza ticket and saw a huge prize, Austin immediately started looking around for her friends, thinking they’d slipped her a phony winning ticket in their efforts to dish out some payback. “I just knew my friends Mac and Linda were somehow playing a joke on me” Austin said. “I didn’t want to get out of the car jumping up and down if they were capturing it with a camera.” Austin purchased the ticket at the Raff and Hall Family Park located at 3404 IH 27 in Lubbock, where she often shops. She scratched the ticket while in her car. Austin says her mind has been spinning, already spending her prize a million different ways in her head! DECEMBER 2007/JANUARY 2008 Robert W. Willingham of Dallas gets $22 from his wife every Tuesday and Thursday to buy Mega Millions® tickets and a soda. The third week in September was no different, except that this time, the Mega Millions Quick Pick ticket he bought had five of the six numbers selected in the September 21 drawing. Since Willingham also purchased the Megaplier®, his ticket was worth a cool $1 million! As a result of where Willingham decided to hide the ticket, the prize got even cooler—downright frosty, in fact. “The banks were closed over the weekend and we couldn’t get to the safe deposit box,” Willingham said. “So we put the ticket in a baggie and stashed it in the icebox.” On Sunday, Willingham had to go out to tend to some errands, so his wife, Vickie, got icebox duty. “I got to stay home to guard the freezer,” she said. “It was ok, though.” Willingham says he’s going to buy his wife something she wants with his winnings. “Vickie is getting a new car,” he said. “We’re going to save the rest for a house project in the future.” Willingham bought the ticket at Red Beer & Wine at 4218 W. Lovers Lane, Dallas. 8435_DecJan_GTP.indd 3 11/13/07 9:01:15 AM Dale Slape of El Paso was with his son in the Country Boy Store #1 in El Paso talking to the store clerks about their past winning experiences. Slape decided to purchase a State Fair of Texas scratch-off ticket and then went out to his car to scratch it. Slape scratched the top half, his son the bottom half. His son told Slape he had won something. Slape glanced at the ticket, and initially thought it bore a $50 prize. On closer examination, he saw it was a $50,000 winner! The father and son screamed, jumped out of the car and hugged each other, then went back inside the store to share their good news with the clerks. Slape could only describe the experience as “unbelievable!” He said he would use some of the winnings to help a friend pay for a trip to Las Vegas to see a NASCAR race. DECEMBER 2007/JANUARY 2008 Drawing results are available right DO YOU THINK YOU’VE WON? after the Day and Night draws at If you believe you are holding any of the following: • a possible Lotto Texas® or Mega Millions jackpot ticket www.txlottery.org • a possible winning on-line ticket valued at $1 million and above • a possible winning instant ticket paid as an annuity • a possible winning instant ticket valued at $1 million and above Please call 1-800-37-LOTTO prior to traveling to Austin for processing. IN AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2007 Webcast link on www.txlottery.org Scratch-Offs . $282,673,639 Watch live streaming video of Lotto Texas Pick 3™ . $22,773,900 Wednesdays and Saturdays at 10:12 PM CT, and see past drawings Cash Five® . .$6,277,306 through our “on demand” feature. Texas Two Step® . .$3,807,593 Lotto Texas®. .$2,684,780 Mega Millions® . .$4,909,080 TOTAL: $323,126,298 NOTICE: Game closing procedures will begin when all top prizes have been claimed. A scratch-off game may continue to be sold even when all the top prizes have been claimed. For current informa- tion on prizes remaining in a scratch-off game, call 1-800-37-LOTTO. Must be 18 years of age or older to purchase a Texas Lottery ticket. The number of prizes in a game is approximate based on the number of tickets 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. See your local Texas Lottery retailer for more details or visit the Texas Lottery Commission’s Web site at www.txlottery.org. 8435_DecJan_GTP.indd 4 11/13/07 9:01:33 AM Julie Phuoc Carlous Kasey Region 1 Richards Dong Rhodes Pompa Abilene Amarillo El Paso Levelland Find the 9’s Daily 4™ State Fair of Texas $130 Million Spectacular $999 $2,629 $2,000 $50,000 Brian Latoya Loc Vanessa Spacek Golden Tran Alaniz Georgetown Midland San Antonio Hobson Lotto Texas $130 Million Spectacular Lotto Texas Billiards $2,376 $2,000 $2,590 $1,000 Andy Gerardo Diana Inez Region 2 Malian Ramirez Sanders Blair Richardson Dallas Mesquite Fort Worth Run the Table Bonus Cashword Run The Table Deal or No Deal™ $10,000 $5,000 $35,000 $10,000 Carla Young Su Lawrence M. Hau Karl Son Hickman Nguyen Bowie Denton Longview Grand Prairie Cash Five® Money Mania Mega Millions Deal or No Deal $30,412 $1,000 $10,000 $1,000 Ricky Lourdes Gilberto MaryHelen D. Region 3 Benavides Rodriguez Castillo Jr. Woods Alice Corpus Christi Laredo Raymondville State Fair of Texas Roll the Dice Crocodile Cash Lotto Texas $2,000 $1,000 $1,000 $2,020 A. George Johnny Barry Theresa Natsis III Hu Cobbs Smith Edna Spring New Caney Houston Mega Millions Daily 4 Break the Bank Daily 4 $10,000 $5,207 $1,000 $2,659 8435_DecJan_GTP.indd 1 11/13/07 9:00:40 AM.