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Going Platinum! Minnesota Scratch-Game Player Hits for $100,000; Powerball on the Rise to $77 Million

Raymond Rybakowski of Middle River, Minnesota, won $100,000 by playing the state’s “Platinum Payout” scratch game.

Rybakowski was at Farmers Union Oil Co., located on E. State St. in Grygla, Minnesota on April 20 and decided to purchase some “Platinum Payout” tickets.

The first ticket was not a winner, but when he started to play the second ticket, he quickly realized that it was a winner. As he usually does, Rybakowski scratched the prize amount from right to left.

When he saw the first “zero,” he thought he won $10. Then he uncovered a second zero and “then the third zero and I thought, ‘Wow!’ The zeros kept coming,” he recalled.

Once Rybakowski realized that he won $100,000, he called his wife, Cynthia. “When I told her, she said, ‘Yeah, right,’ about three times and I said, ‘No, really!’”

Yes. Really.

Congratulations Rybakowski family.

GAMES WE PLAY:

There was no jackpot winner in the April 29 Powerball game so the big prize rolls to $77 million.

The winning numbers are 6,19,36,50,59 and the Power ball is 13.
The Power Play multiplier is 5.

5 tickets hit 5 of 5, but not the Power ball. Those tickets were bought in Connecticut ($200,000), Florida ($200,000), Louisiana ($1 million, because the ticket holder Power Played their bet), Minnesota ($200,000) and South Carolina ($200,000).

The next game (with a $77 million jackpot) is May 2.

The Mega Millions jackpot on May 1 is a HUGE $220 million.
The Euro Millions jackpot on May 1 is also big, at 98 million euros, about $129 million, U.S.

Good luck players around the world.

WATCH FOR:

I am getting great feedback about my book, available at amazon.com and barnes and noble. Check it out: LOTTERY: A GUIDE TO AMERICAN LOTTERIES by Rick Dandes (McAllister Books).

If you listen to morning radio, I’ll likely be on sometime in the next few months in YOUR town. If you have a popular talk station where you live, let me know.

And finally, watch for a Powerball magazine (a print magazine with an online component), to be launched sometime in late 2009, which I’ll be a part of.

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