35 MILLION WINNERS! December 06 January 07

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1 December 06 January 07 News about winners, Scratch-Off prizes, new games and more! Texas Lottery players, here s a gift that extends the holiday spirit for your special someone a Texas Lottery on-line game purchase with the Multi-Draw feature! Just mark the Multi-Draw box on your playslip to participate in up to 10 Lotto Texas, Mega Millions or Texas Two Step drawings, or 12 Cash Five or Pick 3 drawings. Here are the highlights of each on-line game: Mega Millions with Megaplier - This multistate jackpot game starts at $12 million and rolls to mega amounts. With the Megaplier feature, you can multiply non-jackpot prize winnings by two, three or four times! If you choose to Megaply, you have a chance to win $1 million without even hitting the jackpot! Drawings are on Tuesdays and Fridays. Lotto Texas - This jackpot game offers multi-million-dollar jackpots starting at $4 million, and it continues to roll up until there s a winner! Just pick six numbers from 54. Drawings are on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Texas Two Step - This jackpot game starts at $200,000 and increases until there is a winner. You automatically win $5 for matching just the bonus ball. Drawings are on Mondays and Thursdays. Cash Five - Win exciting cash prizes just by matching two, three, four or five numbers from a field of 37. If no one matches the top 5 of 5 prize, the prize money for that level rolls down to the 4 of 5 level! All prizes are paid in one lump-sum payment. Drawings are Monday through Saturday. Pick 3 - This on-line game is a daily numbers game. Drawings take place Monday through Saturday at 12:27 p.m. and at 10:12 p.m. CST. To play Pick 3, you just need a little pocket change! Pick 3 is the only game that offers a 50-cent play. For as little as 50 cents, you could win $40, and for only $1, you could win a $500 prize!* *If you play Any Order with three different numbers for 50 cents, you could win $40. If you play Exact Order for $1, you could win $500. Over 35 Million Winners in August/September 2006! 35 MILLION WINNERS!

2 It s just as nerve-wracking scratching the Texas Lottery Deal or No Deal instant ticket as watching the show, according to Taylor resident Kenneth Sharp. The ticket mirrors the television game show, Deal or No Deal, on NBC. After comparing amounts that gradually became eliminated, Sharp found himself the first recipient of the top prize for the new ticket, $1 million ($50,000 paid annually for 20 years). I took it home and read through the instructions, said Sharp. It s a process of elimination. I saw the million-dollar prize wasn t listed to be eliminated, and I just worked it out from there. Sharp told Texas Lottery officials he plans to retire soon from his 12-hour-a-day, sixday-a-week work schedule. My wife and I are also going to pay off some bills, he added. Sharp purchased his ticket at Lake Drive Texaco, located at 312 West Lake Dr. in Taylor.

3 Just in the nick of time, Rodolfo Dufour of Monterrey, Mexico claimed a $750,000 prize from a ticket that matched the first five numbers for the February 7 Mega Millions drawing. Dufour claimed his prize on July 31, just four days before the ticket was set to expire! Dufour was notified by family members of a sign posted at the selling retailer regarding the missing ticket. Players have 180 days from the date of a drawing to collect prizes for Cash Five, Pick 3, Texas Two Step, Lotto Texas and Mega Millions. Dufour s ticket was set to expire at the close of business on August 4. Talk about a close call! Dufour said that Mega Millions is his favorite Texas Lottery game and that he plans to put his winnings in the bank. Dufour purchased his ticket at the Circle K store at 200 E. Hwy. 83 in McAllen. Matthew Burns of Addison was working to overcome a spring cold and get his thoughts around the fact that he was a recent Texas Lottery winner. In early June he claimed the top prize of $75,000 on the Texas Lottery Bonus Break The Bank Scratch-Off game. I m just starting to realize I won. It s been so much fun, Burns said. I mean, wow, it is amazing! Burns said that he plans to pay off all his bills and perhaps set the rest aside for a down payment on a new home. He bought his winning ticket at Sunny s Beverage Zone located at 2661 Midway Rd. in Carrollton. Tanya Mock of Willis says that 3 is her lucky number. The prize-bearing Run the Table ticket she purchased was number three on the roll. Because I frequent the store where I bought the ticket, she said, Sam [the store clerk] knew it was my lucky number, so of course I bought the ticket. Mock scratched the ticket in the parking lot of the store. When I scratched off the three bars, I looked a little closer to make sure I wasn t just seeing things, and then I ran inside so Sam could tell me I wasn t crazy! she said. She wasn t crazy she really had uncovered a prize! Mock said she planned to send some of her prize money to a friend who is pursuing his dream of professional motocross racing. She bought her ticket at 830 Marina Store and Campground located at FM 830 Rd. in Willis.

4 When a store clerk told Doris Arrington of San Marcos that she would need to visit a Texas Lottery claim center to collect her prize from the September 1 Cash Five drawing, she assumed she must have matched four of five numbers and could expect a payout of several hundred dollars. Imagine her surprise when claim center personnel broke the news that she had in fact matched all five numbers in that drawing and that she was due $34,226! I was more than happy to drive up here for a few hundred dollars, Arrington explained. But when they told me how much I had actually won, I was so surprised I was just speechless. Arrington said she and her husband always play the same numbers, based on family birthdays, but the most they d ever won before was about $100. She purchased her winning ticket at the Sac N Pac #116 located at 1002 Hwy. 80 in San Marcos. Persistence pays off, as Raymundo Franco of Odessa can attest. Franco has been playing the same numbers on the Cash Five game for 12 years, and in August he won $10,063 by matching all five numbers. I was at the library reading the newspaper, and when I checked the results, I felt a shock and I also felt very happy. The most money Franco had won previously on a lottery ticket was $628. Franco planned to use his winnings to buy a truck. He bought his ticket at Albertson s #4215 located at 2751 Country Rd. West in Odessa. Dee Gelsomini of The Woodlands often buys randomly chosen lottery tickets as gifts to send with birthday cards to friends and family. This ticket happened to be left over after I d given the others away, Gelsomini said. Lucky me! The Jacks In the Box ticket she kept bore a prize! I had actually forgotten about the ticket, she said. My daughter found it laying on my desk and scratched off the ticket. I thought she was joking when she yelled out, We won! Gelsomini said she d give half of her winnings to her children so they ll stop hitting me up for money, and use the rest to go shopping and out to dinner with her husband. She purchased her winning ticket at Bob s Meat and Grocery located at st St. in Galveston.

5 December 06 January 07 W i n n i n g! Drawing results are available right after the Day and Night draws at Webcast link on Watch live streaming video of Lotto Texas Wednesdays and Saturdays at 10:12 PM CT, and see past drawings through our on demand feature. NewGames #624 4 s Galore ($1) Top Prize: #653 Bonus Blackjack ($2) Top Prize: $25,000 # Grand ($2) Top Prize: $25,000 #685 Lucky Millions ($30) Top Prize: $3,000,000 #692 In the Chips ($2) Top Prize: $25,000 #730 Magnificent 7 s ($7) Top Prize: $75,000 #731 Money Maker ($5) Top Prize: $55,000 #747 The Price Is Right ($2) Top Prize: $25,000 #760 Holiday Cash ($1) Top Prize: #761 $300,000 Casino ($10) Top Prize: $300,000 #763 Royal Riches ($5) Top Prize: $50,000 #767 Lone Star Riches ($5) Top Prize: $50,000 #770 Queen of Hearts Tripler ($3) Top Prize: $35,000 #776 Spread the Wealth ($5) Top Prize: $50,000 GamesClosing Call Date: 10/1/06 End of Game: 11/30/06 End Validations: 5/29/07 #634 Wheel of Fortune Odds: 1 in 4.22 #654 Texas Gold Rush Odds: 1 in 3.38 #657 Winning Numbers Odds: 1 in 4.83 #726 Mystery Money Odds: 1 in 3.39 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, call LOTTO. Must be 18 years of age or older to purchase a 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 DO YOU THINK YOU WON? If you believe you are holding any of the following: a possible Lotto Texas or Mega Millions jackpot ticket 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 LOTTO prior to traveling to Austin for processing. PrizesPaid in August / September 2006 Scratch-Offs... $292,788,438 Pick 3... $23,514,640 Cash Five... $7,020,320 Texas Two Step... $3,191,679 Lotto Texas... $38,854,643 Mega Millions... $6,912,257 Total: $372,281,977

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