SCRATCHERS? NEWS
 

The Arizona Lottery is celebrating our 30th Anniversary by offering three special tickets, all with Second Chance Drawings.  We will kick off with 30th Anniversary Celebration, on sale August 2.  This $5 ticket offers a top prize of $50,000.

The other two anniversary tickets will go on sale November 2011: 30th Anniversary and 30 Years of Fun.

 

We also have three other new Scratchers tickets coming out Tuesday, August 2:

Three Queens – This $1 ticket offers a top prize of $2,000

Double the Money – This $2 tickets offers a top prize of $10,000

$50 Million Money Mania – This $10 ticket offers a top prize of $1,000,000. 

To see additional Scratchers, click here.

Cabbie Hits Big Payday

A Prescott man took the advice of the store manager where he purchases his tickets and is $100,000 richer.  The winning Sky High Crossword Scratchers ticket was purchased from Woody’s Food Store, 501 Copper Basin Rd., Prescott.

The store manager recommended the ticket to his customer, who purchased several of them and took them home to scratch.  When he saw the $100,000 in the box, he was so surprised that he sat there in shock.  Then he called the store manager to tell him about his win, but the manager thought he was kidding.  When he realized that he wasn’t kidding, the manager drove him down to Phoenix to redeem the ticket.

Our winner is a cab driver who plays Scratchers almost every day, as he considers them entertainment.  He won $500 three days prior to this win and said, “My return on Scratchers has been good.” His advice to players is to “Keep playing them – that’s the only way you can win.”

To see more Lottery winners, click here.

30TH ANNIVERSARY FUN FACTS

• On October 13, 1984, the Lottery introduced The Pick™ 6 of 36 on-line game.

• The first matrix increase occurred October 4, 1986; the numbers increased from 36 to 39, and a bonus number was added.

• The Pick once-a-week drawing changed to twice a week May 4, 1998.