Celebrate 10 Years Of Powerball
MVP Club members get one chance to win a year's supply of Powerball tickets with each serial number from a Powerball ticket purchased and submitted during July 2004 through nelottery.com.The contest runs between July 1 and July 31, 2004. Entries must be received by 11:59:59 p.m. (CT) on July 31.Ten 1st Place Prizes will be awarded from among entries received in a random drawing on August 2, 2004:1st Prize, (ten winners)A year's worth of Powerball tickets, with the Power Play feature:--each valued at $208--prize will be rendered in coupons redeemable at a pre-determined Nebraska Lottery retailerHow To EnterTo enter, login with your MVP Club membership on nelottery.com and submit the 25-digit serial number from the front of the Powerball ticket. You can enter more than once; with the serial number from any winning or non-winning Powerball ticket purchased between July 1 and July 31, 2004.Click here to enter serial numbersPowerballThe Powerball jackpot starts at $10 million and continues to grow until it is won. Drawings are held each Wednesday and Saturday. There are nine ways to win with Powerball, and prizes range from $3 for matching just the red powerball to the multi-million dollar jackpot for matching all six numbers. The overall odds of winning something on the game are 1 in 36.06.Since the Nebraska Lottery began offering Powerball in July of 1994, in Nebraska there have been:7 Powerball jackpot winners (worth more than $139 million), plus154 winners of $100,000, and833 winners of $5,000, andmore than 8 million other winners of $3 to $100 prizes...all worth more than $51.8 million. Contest RulesTicket Availability and Contest TermsPowerball is available at Nebraska Lottery retailers statewide, and may be purchased by any Nebraska Lottery player age 19 or older—not just MVP Club members.Only Nebraska Lottery Powerball tickets can be used to enter this contest. Tickets from other lotteries that offer Powerball are not eligible.Only entries submitted by MVP Club members through nelottery.com, and containing complete and valid information will be eligible for this contest.The serial numbers submitted on entries drawn will be checked for authenticity, and entries drawn that do not have valid serial numbers will be discarded and new entries will be drawn in their place.The actual tickets from which serial numbers are submitted may be required for contest prize verification, and should be retained until the contest has ended and prizes have been awarded.Entries that are lost, late, illegible, incomplete, misdirected or incompletely received—including by reason of technical malfunction, network congestion or system incompatibility—are not eligible.Information provided by MVP Club members will be kept confidential, and will be used solely by or on behalf of the Nebraska Lottery and will not be shared with or sold to outside parties.The Nebraska Lottery will notify contest winners. The identity of contest winners is public information, and will be posted on this website and may be publicized by other means including, but not limited to, news releases and articles in the Nebraska Lottery players magazine and retailer newsletter.Cash prizes awarded in this, and any other contest conducted by the Nebraska Lottery are considered earned income and will be reported for tax purposes. As with all prizes of $500 value or more, winners will be checked for back taxes and child support, in accordance with Nebraska law. Prizes of $5,000 or more awarded through this website will automatically have state and federal income tax of 5 percent and 25 percent, respectively, withheld, in accordance with Nebraska law.Prizes won through this website are not assignable, and unless otherwise stated in contest rules may not be transferred.You must be 19 years old or older to enter this contest, or to buy or redeem Nebraska Lottery tickets.Membership in the Nebraska Lottery MVP Club entitles you to receive information concerning Nebraska Lottery products and promotions, according to your stated preferences. You may modify your member profile at any time by following the directions on the MVP Club members login page of this website.
Published on 06/30/2004