VOL. 34 NO. 9 • Treat Yourself Scratch Tickets • $3,000,000 Winner! • Math Olympiad - Classroom Wishlist • Special Delivery in Idaho City
The Idaho Lottery is brewing up some wickedly good wins this autumn, with three Halloween games to choose from and top prizes up to $100,000! Last month we previewed Dum-Dums, the first of its kind, strawberry-scented Scratch game, partnering with Spangler Candy. Joining Dum-Dums in the spook-tacular game line up are the $5 Make Me Witch Scratch game, and the $10 Monster Slingo. Make Me Witch is one of the most directly Halloween-themed games offered from the Lottery in years. It features all the fun elements necessary to conjure up wins for your players including a spooky jack-o-lantern bonus area, witches hats,
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spider webs, and bubbling cauldrons. The game features two top prizes of $50,000. That’s so fun, it’s scary! The $10 Monster Slingo is the second $10 Slingo game ever offered from the Idaho Lottery. The game plays like a traditional Slingo game, only bigger – with a monster-sized top prize of $100,000! Let the thrills and chills of the Halloween season begin with Dum-Dums, Make Me Witch, and Monster Slingo. Three spooky games with wildly, wickedly good wins. Tell your players about these games this fall for their chance to treat themselves up to $100,000!
$3,000,000 MEGA MILLIONS WINNER! Ahead of the 4th of July, Utah resident J. Refugio Gonzalez Almeida made two trips from Utah to Malad, Idaho to make sure he had Mega Millions tickets for the then $400 million Mega Millions jackpot draw. The decision to visit the second time over the weekend turned into a $3,000,000 windfall.
$3,000,000 MEGA MILLIONS WINNER!
“Playing the Lottery is my hobby. When I didn’t win the jackpot on that Friday, I thought ‘I need a ticket for the 4th of July,’ so I drove back to Malad on Saturday,” described Almeida on purchasing his ticket over the long, holiday weekend. He had smaller winning tickets, so he cashed those and reinvested the winnings. “I bought all the games, including Mega Millions.” On the Mega Millions draw for the Fourth of July, which coincidently is his birthday, Almeida’s ticket matched the first five numbers but not the Megaball. It also had the Megaplier feature. The Megaplier number for that draw was 3, turning his $1,000,000 winning ticket into a $3,000,000 winner. Continue to Page 2