· South Dakota Powerball results · SD South Dakota Wildcard · SD South Dakota Hot Lotto ·
03/30/08 Vincent Huebner of Rapid City today claimed the $200,000 South Dakota Powerball prize he won in Wednesday night’s drawing. The retired Air Force master sergeant discovered he won when he checked the numbers in the morning newspaper. He showed his wife Katherine the numbers, but both were hesitant to believe what they were seeing. Last week the couple though they’d won $5,000 on a scratch ticket only to discover they’d misread the ticket.
My wife was afraid she was going to be disappointed again and didn’t even want to come with me to claim the ticket, Huebner said. We really didn’t believe we had a winner until we had it checked by the Lottery.” Huebner purchased his winning South Dakota Powerball ticket at the Family Thrift Center on East St. Patrick Street in Rapid City. The store will receive a $10,000 bonus for selling the winning quick pick” ticket.
Carl Umlauf of Watertown came forward today to claim the $250,000 grand prize in the South Dakota Lottery’s Dakota Raffle game. Umlauf won the prize in the New Year’s Eve drawing for the special raffle-style game. It was the first such game the South Dakota Lottery has ever offered. Umlauf’s winning ticket was number 00066161.
I got shaky, he said of having the winning South Dakota lotto ticket. I couldn’t believe it. Umlauf, a painter at Angus-Palm in Watertown, said he had no plans yet on what to do with his prize money other than to pay some bills. The winning ticket was purchased at the Prairie Stop in Watertown. The store will receive a $10,000 bonus for selling the winning quick pick ticket. Norm Lingle, executive director of the Lottery, said 138 of the 256 winners had claimed their prizes by Friday afternoon, nearly all for $500 prizes. The four remaining tickets worth $25,000 were purchased in Aberdeen, Faith, Sioux Falls and Sisseton. Players have 180 days from the drawing to claim their prizes at one of the three Lottery offices in Sioux Falls, Rapid City or Pierre or by mail.
Pierre Carl Umlauf of Watertown came forward today to claim the $250,000 grand prize in the Lottery’s Dakota Raffle game. Umlauf won the prize in the New Year’s Eve drawing for the special raffle-style game. It was the first such game the Lottery has ever offered. Umlauf’s winning ticket was number 00066161.
I got shaky, he said of having the South Dakota lotto winning ticket. I couldn’t believe it. Umlauf, a painter at Angus-Palm in Watertown, said he had no plans yet on what to do with his prize money other than to pay some bills. The winning ticket was purchased at the Prairie Stop in Watertown. The store will receive a $10,000 bonus for selling the winning quick pick ticket. A total of 80,120 tickets were sold for the Dakota Raffle drawing. There were 256 winning tickets that shared in $500,000 in various prizes.
Norm Lingle, executive director of the South Dakota Lottery, said 138 of the 256 winners had claimed their prizes by Friday afternoon, nearly all for $500 prizes. One of the five prizes of $25,000 has been claimed. Jennifer Bly of Sioux Falls on Thursday claimed the $25,000 prize she won with a ticket purchased at the Kum / Go on West 49th in Sioux Falls. The four remaining tickets worth $25,000 were purchased in Aberdeen, Faith, Sioux Falls and Sisseton. Players have 180 days from the drawing to claim their prizes at one of the three Lottery offices in Sioux Falls, Rapid City or Pierre or by mail.
(Pierre) Kari Lee of South Shore is the winner of the $72,625 Dakota Cash jackpot. Lee and her husband LaVern today claimed the prize they won in the Wednesday, August 1 drawing.
Lee checked the winning numbers on the Lottery’s website on Wednesday night. She and her husband were left speechless when they discovered they’d won. There was a little bit of tears, she said. We were stunned and wondered what to do next.
Lee sent an email to the Lottery around midnight asking what to do. The email, in all capital letters, contained 31 exclamation points.
She followed up with a phone call shortly after the Lottery office opened at 8:00 a.m. Thursday morning. The couple hadn’t gotten much sleep in between. We’ve been up most of the night looking at the ticket, taking pictures of the ticket, and looking at the ticket some more, she said.
The Lees traveled to Sioux Falls Thursday to claim the prize. It was Kari’s day off from her job at Premier Bankcard, and LaVern took the day off from his job at Telelect to accompany her.
The winning ticket was purchased at the Cowboy Country Store on 4th Street NE in Watertown. The store will receive a $3,631 bonus for selling the lucky quick pick ticket.
Dakota Cash is played only in South Dakota. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1:324,632. The jackpot for the next drawing on Saturday night is $20,000.