Kyra McTyer of North Little Rock claimed a $170,000 prize this morning from a Natural State Jackpot (NSJ) ticket she purchased from Jackpocket Winner’s Corner via the Jackpocket lottery app for last Saturday’s drawing.

The winning numbers were 7, 9, 13, 32 and 39.

McTyer said she was at home Saturday night when she got a text from Jackpocket saying, “You Won Big!”

“I was thinking, ‘Oh, I won like a hundred bucks,” she said. “Then when I opened the text, I had to look at it four times to see that all the numbers matched. And then I was like, ‘Oh, my God! I now can pay off the house I bought five years ago for me and my mom. I’m just so blessed and thankful.”

The winner thinks 2022 may be her lucky year.

“It’s funny because my boyfriend and I won $50,000 off a scratch-off ticket in June, and I got promoted at work this year, too,” she said.

“I had a little bit of money in my Jackpocket account so I decided Saturday to go ahead and purchase a couple of NSJ tickets. I always play Natural State, the new LOTTO game – man, I’d love to win that one – plus Powerball® and Mega Millions®.”

McTyer said she learned about the Jackpocket app on Facebook and started reading a little bit about it.

“I saw where people were winning from it so I knew it was legit,” she said. “It’s cool.”

A Jackpocket player last hit the Natural State Jackpot in June 2022, when a Pine Bluff woman won the record $520,000 prize. The Natural State Jackpot for tonight’s drawing is $65,000. The Mega Millions jackpot has climbed to $238 million for Friday night’s drawing. On Saturday the jackpot drawings for LOTTO and Powerball will be $714,000 and $93 million, respectively.

For more information about the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery games and odds, go to MyArkansasLottery.com. For more information about Jackpocket go to Jackpocket.com.

About the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery

More than 92 cents of every dollar of ASL revenue goes to prizes, scholarships, retailer commissions and other expenses in Arkansas. Since 2009, the lottery has raised more than $12 billion in proceeds for scholarships. More than 675,000 college scholarships have been awarded to Arkansans. The lottery has awarded more than $4 billion in prizes to players, about $363 million in retailer commissions and provided more than $158 million in state and federal tax revenue.

Follow the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Visit MyArkansasLottery.com for more information on scholarships, winners, games, odds, promotions – and to join The Club for free. To hear winning numbers, call the Winning Numbers Hotline at 501-682-IWON (4966). To get help with problem gambling, contact the National Problem Gambling Helpline at 1-800-522-4700. 

About Jackpocket

Jackpocket is on a mission to create a more convenient, fun and responsible way to play the lottery. The first licensed third-party lottery app in the United States, Jackpocket provides an easy, secure way to order official state lottery tickets. Jackpocket is currently available in Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, West Virginia and Washington, D.C., and is expanding to many new markets. Download the app on iOS or Android and follow along on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.