SACRAMENTO – The winner of a California Lottery Fantasy 5 ticket worth $287,781 has stepped forward to claim his prize.
The man, who requested anonymity, was recently laid off from his job as a factory worker and is thankful for this “blessing.” He does not yet know what he will do with the money and for now will “put it in the bank and think about it.”
The ticket was purchased for the February 7 drawing from Chinatown Express, which is located at 5201 Whittier Boulevard.
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 top prize starts at $50,000 and can top $500,000 depending on how many times it rolls over (similar to SuperLOTTO Plus® and MEGA Millions®). Winning numbers are drawn every day. Tickets are $1 and 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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