Here’s how much South Dakota’s 10 biggest lottery winners have won. Could you be next?
The country is in a Powerball-buying frenzy after Saturday night's drawing failed to produce a winning ticket. Now the $1.9 billion jackpot, the biggest in U.S. lottery history, is up for grabs again.
Twice this last week a ticket bought in South Dakota came close to matching those winning digits. In both cases, if all numbers would have matched, the payout would have cemented the winner as the top lottery winner in South Dakota history.
Unfortunately, for the owners of those tickets − one in Dell Rapids and another in Sioux Falls − they were each missing that one extra number to take their winning from $50,000 and $1 million, respectively, to a jackpot worth more than a billion dollars.
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Monday's Powerball drawing for a record-breaking $1.9 billion will be held at 10 p.m. Here's a look at the top 10 biggest lottery winners in South Dakota history, according to South Dakota Lottery:
NAME | CITY | GAME | AMOUNT WON | DATE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Neal Wanless | Mission, SD | Powerball | $232,100,000 | 5/27/2009 |
Bill and Tina Nguyen | Pierre, SD | Powerball | $116,800,000 | 5/17/2006 |
The Watertwon 34 | Watertown, SD | Powerball | $50,900,000 | 2/1/2003 |
Ionia Klein | Dallas, SD | Lotto* America | $12,466,963 | 4/6/1991 |
Mary Broders | Yankton, SD | Hot Lotto | $9,130,000 | 6/15/2005 |
Brandi Jo Hanson | Yankton, SD | Lucky for Life | $5,700,000 | 1/8/2019 |
Barb and Jim Powers | Rapid City, SD | Powerball | $2,000,000 | 6/5/2013 |
Emil Goodteacher and Donna Knodel | Yankton, SD | Powerball | $2,000,000 | 8/28/2021 |
Harold Scheffert | Oakes, ND | Daily Millions | $1,005,000 | 3/17/1998 |
Beal 28 | Sioux Falls, SD | Powerball | $1,000,000 | 5/15/2013 |
This article originally appeared on Sioux Falls Argus Leader: Top 10 biggest South Dakota lottery winners
