Luck was in the air in Woodbury as someone recently won more than $1 million from the Gopher 5.
The golden ticket was sold at Kwik Trip on City Centre Drive. According to Minnesota Lottery, the Woodbury Kwik Trip will earn a $5,000 bonus for selling the ticket. The winning numbers drawn Wednesday, April 9, were 5-14-28-39-43 and the total prize was a $1,015,162 jackpot.
Gopher 5 tickets cost $1 to play. Jackpots start at $100,000 and grow until won, according to Minnesota Lottery.
Though drawings are held for the Gopher 5 every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, the odds of winning the jackpot are one in 1,533,939, according to Minnesota Lottery.
Prizes of more than $50,000 are to be claimed in person at Minnesota Lottery headquarters in Roseville. The winning Woodbury Gopher 5 ticket was anonymously claimed Tuesday, according to Minnesota Lottery Public Affairs Director Joan Schimml.
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