Wooh News - May 2024

VOL. 35 NO. 5

• 35th Anniversary Winners

• Rolling Jackpot 2nd Chance

• Scratch For Schools

• Suds Tavern Winners

• Ellis Elementary CW

• Coming Soon Retailer Newsletter

Published May 2024

Big 2nd Chance Draw Winner

The unique feature of the Idaho Lottery’s 35th Anniversary family of games is the second chance draw. Every time players enter a non-winning scratch ticket the rolling jackpot increases. For the month of March, the jackpot reached $114,500 and was won by a lucky couple from Idaho Falls. Nick Fell, and his fiancé Angela, got engaged during the month of March. They had been looking into wedding venues a few days before the monthly drawing. They had agreed on a venue but were disheartened to find that the expense would set them back as newlyweds. Their goal is to have as little debt as possible when they get married.

“This jackpot is a huge help. We will be able to have a nice wedding, a nice honeymoon,” said Nick who also promised to take Angel’s kids on a cruise, too. “We’ll set some aside for retirement and help to build a home.”

But the luck didn’t end there. Before the couple left the Lottery, Nick was reunited with a childhood friend, Dave Pellegatto, who happened to arrive at the Lottery Offices with a $3,000 winning 35th Anniversary ticket of his own!

$35,000 for Lewiston Woman

A lucky lady from Lewiston became the Idaho Lottery’s first big $35,000 winner on the $5, 35th Anniversary Scratch Game! Patricia Mallon and her daughter braved the elements to travel from Lewiston to Boise in early April to claim her prize.

Mallon’s daughter bought the ticket for her from the Circle K on Bryden Canyon. She said her mother had been scratching so many tickets lately that her shoulder began hurt, but that she was undeterred once she knew she had the winner.

“We could barely sleep last night and then braved the snowstorms to get here,” said Patricia on driving through Idaho’s cold, windy, snowy early April to get to Boise. “I thought I’d only won $35, or $350. Then I had my daughter come over and she confirmed I’d won. That’s when

Get in on the Rolling Jackpot 2nd Chance

Remind your players that all non-winning 35th Anniversary tickets may be entered exclusively through the Idaho Lottery’s free VIP Club for a chance to win a monthly, rolling jackpot! Players scratch off an 8-digit alphanumeric second chance entry code at the bottom of their ticket. They enter their code to access an exciting, interactive on-line second chance game to reveal their entries into the next drawing. All these entries are entered through the Lottery's VIP Club for a chance to win one of the rolling jackpots each month. Entries for the monthly draw are only valid in the month they are entered.

Remaining Drawings: June 1, 2024; July 1, 2024; and August 1, 2024

Director’s Corner

Greetings,

The Idaho Lottery is poised to deliver an exceptional performance to plan and exceed this year’s dividend goal for Idaho public schools and buildings. We only accomplish that with the continued commitment by you, our valued partners, who interact with our (as in both of us) customers by selling our tickets every day of the year. Team Lottery is grateful.

March brought the Idaho Lottery, and your businesses, two, billion-dollar jackpots – one each on Mega Millions and then on Powerball. This is a statistical anomaly, but we’ll take the new “business as usual” activity of increased foot-traffic to your stores. I hope it was beneficial and profitable for you.

The Lottery will finish out our 35th year of doing good for Idaho, and you can expect enhanced promotions that will drive traffic into your stores.

Idaho has long been known as a lucky place. Our jackpot wins per capita and creation of new millionaires continues each year. To celebrate, we are bringing the party to some of the luckiest stores in Idaho beginning in May through early July as we build excitement for our 35th Anniversary celebration on Friday, July 19 at the Village in Meridian.

Happy Selling!

SCRATCH FOR SCHOOLS

Aye, there be surly-looking pirates at Scratch for Schools, matey. This spring’s swashbuckling fun is complete with a near record number of schools participating. A total of 459 schools swaggered up to one of ten venues and captured over $160,000 in loot and doubloons.

Okay, really, it is just checks issued from Customer Service, but the pirate part was real.

This year the competition was fierce, producing some of the most competitive scratching in Scratch for Schools history, including in some unlikely places. At each event, schools received 200 unscratched tickets, an entire package of Blackboard’s Loot, a pirate themed ticket created specifically for Scratch for Schools (this ticket was not available to the public). The single most competitive venues were Lewiston and Idaho Falls. In Lewiston, two schools scratched all 200 tickets with two more schools scratching 199 during the five-minute round. In Idaho Falls, three schools scratched all 200 tickets with a fourth scratching 196. Overall, there were seven schools who scratched all 200 tickets in their five-minute round and another dozen who scratched 195 or more! Those schools joining the “200 Club” this year were:

Bruneau Elementary at Nampa

Nez Perce School District at Lewiston

Prairie Jr./Sr. High at Lewiston

Discovery Elementary at Idaho Falls

Linden Park Elementary at Idaho Falls

Lindy Ross Elementary at Idaho Falls

Gooding High School at Twin Falls

And a few schools were both good and lucky, claiming over $800. They were:

MOSAICS Public Charter – Nampa - 1,167

Homedale Elementary – Homedale - $967

Council High School – Council - $967

Lewis & Clark Elementary – Pocatello - $967

Fernwaters Charter – Salmon - $967

Sandpoint High School – Sandpoint - $867

Here is a breakdown of the final results from all of this year’s events:

EVENT

Nampa

McCall

Lewiston

Sandpoint/Ponderay

Coeur d'Alene

Boise

Pocatello

Salmon

Idaho Falls

Twin Falls

$19,305 $24,592 $161,463

SUDS TAVERN IN BOISE BECOMES LUCKIEST TAVERN IN IDAHO

One of Idaho’s newest Lottery retail locations has quickly become the luckiest tavern in the Gem State. On consecutive days, Suds Tavern on Broadway in Boise sold a $1 million scratch ticket and then a $131,634 top prize on the InstaPlay game Ultimate Diamond Jackpot. This is a remarkable achievement for a retail location that only started selling Lottery Scratch products on February 1, 2024.

“We had been trying for a long time to get Idaho Lottery Scratch Games in our establishment,” said Scott Burney, co-owner of Suds. “We were thrilled we got the opportunity to offer Lottery products to our patrons. But now, with two big wins in two days, this is incredible.”

On a Tuesday, to celebrate his birthday, Travis Wilson claimed a $1,000,000 Big Money Scratch ticket sold from a vending kiosk at Suds. Later that night, Julie Chislock and her husband joined Wilson back at Suds Tavern to celebrate Wilson’s big win. While there, she played a few Ultimate Diamond Jackpot tickets and won $131,634. She claimed her prize the next day on Wednesday.

Burney joined both winners when they visited the Lottery office in Boise on consecutive days. For selling the two winning tickets, Suds will receive selling bonuses from the Lottery of $33,163.

“I love having Lottery. I’m riding high!” exclaimed the co-owner. “This is life changing for sure.”

ELLIS ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM WISHLIST

On a lovely spring morning in April, a young kindergartner at Ellis Elementary in Chubbuck named Merrick was having an absolutely wonderful day! His morning at

announcements from the school principal, Denise Lane, “April is fearless month: Which means not being afraid to try new things even if you do not succeed.” This was followed by a fun, fundraising game of “Penny Wars” between the various classrooms.

who are struggling and have different learning needs, but also to decrease behaviors and inattention to the whole class,” said Hall. “These tools are proven to help students to learn the basic skills –alphabet and numbers – especially for dyslexic learners and other student populations with learning difficulties.”

At the conclusion of the award ceremony, Merrick informed the Lottery crew that the day was his birthday, and that the Lottery’s visit was the best present. That was until it was time, about five minutes later, when Merrik’s class had to leave for their field trip to the local fire station.

Upon the conclusion of the game, the Idaho Lottery’s Community Ambassadors and team delivered his teacher, Elizabeth Hall, a big Classroom Wishlist award worth $2,052. Merrick was the first kindergartner to correctly tell us the check was worth, “Two thousand and fifty-two dollars.” Her award consisted of multi-sensory tools and other classroom materials to help young students be successful.

“More multisensory tools makes learning more fun, which can not only increase engagement for those learners

And all of that before 9 am on a

TWO LUCKY SUD’S TAVERN WINNERS FROM BOISE