A $2 LOTTO ticket turned into a $25,000 payday for Dina Jeffries of Lowell, who claimed her prize Wednesday at the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery (ASL) Claim Center in Little Rock.  

Jeffries purchased the winning LOTTO ticket on the Jackpocket mobile app and won by matching five numbers plus the Bonus Number in the April 8, 2023, drawing.

Jefferies is the fifth Arkansan to win $25,000 playing LOTTO and says, “I just love the idea that it’s in Arkansas.” She plays weekly on Jackpocket, which is currently offering first-time users a free $2 LOTTO ticket using promo code ARLOTTO at checkout.

Overall, more than $1.2 million in LOTTO prizes has been won since the game launched in September of 2022. There are multiple ways to win with LOTTO. Players must match six numbers to win the jackpot or match other number combinations — with or without the Bonus Number — to win non-jackpot prizes up to $25,000. 

With her winnings, Jeffries plans to vacation in the Smoky Mountains with her husband this June. She also has her eye on the current $2.262 million LOTTO jackpot. 

“I am most definitely continuing to play with hopes of hitting the big jackpot,” says Jeffries. “Everything would be paid off. We would travel and my husband would retire.”

LOTTO is an Arkansas-only jackpot game with drawings every Wednesday and Saturday. The next LOTTO drawing will be held Saturday, April 22, at 9 p.m. Tickets are $2 per play and can be purchased at all lottery retailers or on the Jackpocket app.

Please play responsibly. For game odds and details, visit MyArkansasLottery.com/LOTTO.

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 $1.2 billion in proceeds for scholarships. More than 675,000 college scholarships have been awarded to Arkansans. The lottery has paid more than $4.5 billion in prizes to players, about $378 million in retailer commissions, and provided more than $164 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.