Wyoming has its first lottery jackpot winner

Apr 16, 2015, 9:22 pm (10 comments)

Wyoming Lottery

By Todd Northrop

One lucky lottery player who bought a lottery ticket in Douglas, Wyoming, will become the first person in the state's history to win a lottery jackpot.

A Cowboy Draw ticket purchased for the April 16 drawing won the game's $628,630 jackpot by matching all 5 numbers.

Cowboy Draw is Wyoming's first in-state lottery game, and its first drawing was held March 23. Its rolling jackpot was won on the game's eighth drawing.

The winner bought their ticket at the Maverik, located at 1108 W Yellowstone Hwy Douglas, at 12:12 p.m. on April 16.  The winning numbers for April 16 were 6, 8, 9, 27, and 32. 

"Our goal with Cowboy Draw game is to increase the fun and winnings for WyoLotto players," said Jon Clontz, CEO of the Wyoming Lottery Corporation."  We did increase the payout percent giving our Wyoming players more chances to win.  Our overall odds on this game are very low at 1:6 which makes it an easier game to win.  We expect to see the number of jackpot winners continue to grow." 

An additional 11 Wyoming Lottery players won $1,000 each in the April 16 drawing by matching 4 of 5 numbers, bringing the total of $1,000 winners to 76 since the game's inception.

Cowboy Draw jackpots start at $250,000 and grow each drawing until a player matches all 5 numbers.

The winner has 180 days to claim their prize.

Lottery Post Staff

Comments

Technut's avatarTechnut

YEEHA! Congrats to the lucky Cowboy Draw winner. (c8

cbr$'s avatarcbr$

Congratulation to the Wyoming lottery winner. Party

myturn's avatarmyturn

The winner could be a Utahn, from next door!

ThatScaryChick's avatarThatScaryChick

Congrats to the lucky first winner of the Cowboy Draw!

Gleno's avatarGleno

Nice starting pot of $250K. Makes N.J.'s 75K beginning jackpot " small potatoes."

But hey, Wyoming is Big Sky Country!

Coffee

IPlayWeekly's avatarIPlayWeekly

That's a nice win

haymaker's avatarhaymaker

Quote: Originally posted by myturn on Apr 17, 2015

The winner could be a Utahn, from next door!

Could be, but Douglas WY. is over 6 hours from Salt Lake City,

 a long way to get lottery even for rural western travel. 

I could go from SLC to Vegas in less then that

The ID border is a little over an hour.

haymaker's avatarhaymaker

Quote: Originally posted by Gleno on Apr 17, 2015

Nice starting pot of $250K. Makes N.J.'s 75K beginning jackpot " small potatoes."

But hey, Wyoming is Big Sky Country!

Coffee

That is nice, I don't play JC5 til it gets to $250K

dallascowboyfan's avatardallascowboyfan

Congratulations to the winner Hurray!

music*'s avatarmusic*

 Howdy Partner !  This old cowboy wishes you a nice trail ride and good weather. US Flag

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