SACRAMENTO – A janitor at a local school district has a debt-free new year on the horizon. Leonard Lithen of Sacramento has claimed a winning Fantasy 5 ticket worth $175,396.
Like most people these days, Lithen said he dreams of erasing his credit card debt. Luckily, Lithen now has the ability to do just that.
His ticket matched all five winning numbers in the December 16 draw – 6, 7, 14, 23, and 28. Fast Mart is located at 4305 Fruitridge Road in Sacramento.
Fantasy 5 offers some of the best odds of any California Lottery game. A player wins the Fantasy 5 jackpot simply by matching five numbers out of a field of 39. The prize starts at $50,000 and can top $500,000 depending on how many times the top prize rolls over (similar to SuperLOTTO Plus and MEGA Millions). Winning numbers are drawn every day. Tickets can be purchased from any of the more than 20,000 California Lottery retailers (www.calottery.com/locations).
More than 95 cents of every Lottery dollar is returned to the community in the form of contributions to education, prizes and retail commissions. The California Lottery contributes at least 34 cents of every dollar that players spend on Lottery products to public education and returns more than 50 percent of sales to players in the form of prizes. Since its inception in 1985, the Lottery has contributed nearly $21 billion to California schools out of total sales of more than $56 billion. Retailers benefit too, earning $3.6 billion in compensation since 1985.
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