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Lottery pays out Megabucks jackpot and two lotto games hit
It was a fantastic way to celebrate the holiday weekend for four lucky lottery players.
Yeah! The $5.9 Million Megabucks jackpot was claimed on Friday! Matthew Neal of Sheboygan, came forward to claim his $5.9 Million jackpot prize from the January 16 drawing. He beat the 180 days deadline to claim the prize–the ticket would have expired on July 15. Neal bought the winning ticket (1, 5, 28, 29, 37, and 44) at the Kwik Trip (625 South Taylor Drive) in Sheboygan. The $5.9 million jackpot is the largest Megabucks prize won since 2015.
Two players split the $133,000 Badger 5 jackpot from Saturday’s drawing. Each player won $66,500 by matching all five numbers (5, 7, 15, 18 and 21). One of the tickets was purchased at Festival Foods (1200 W. Northland Avenue) in Appleton; the other at Handy Plus Gas (12511 Antioch Road) in Trevor.
One Powerball player won the $50,000 prize by matching 4 of 5 plus the Powerball. Winning numbers were 4, 8, 23, 46, 65 and Powerball 1. Stop-N-Go (1 S. Main Street) in Edgerton sold the winning ticket.
Odds of winning the Megabucks jackpot are 1 in 6,991,908; odds of winning the Powerball’s $50,000 prize are 1 in 913,130; and the odds of winning the Badger 5 jackpot are 1 in 169,911.
