News Release Nebraska Lottery
COZAD, Neb.-Bill Carter of Cozad is the seventh and final winner of a 2021 Ford F-150 XLT 4x4 SuperCrew Flex Fuel truck in the 26th edition of the Nebraska Lottery’s $2 Truck$ & Buck$ Scratch game.
Carter purchased his winning Truck$ & Buck$ ticket at Cozad Cenex at 801 S Meridian Ave. in Cozad.
Nebraska Lottery officials presented Carter with his truck on Thursday, July 1 at Cozad Cenex.
Carter said that he’d been joking with the clerk when he bought the ticket, saying he needed some gas so he might as well buy a Truck$ & Buck$ ticket to try to win one of the $500 ethanol fuel cards offered in the game.
“I said, ‘Give me a couple of them,’” Carter said. “It just happened to be the goody one.”
Carter’s had some good luck before playing Scratch and Lotto games. He won a big prize a few years back in New Mexico and he also won the $5,000 top prize on the Nebraska MyDaY Lotto ticket.
He said he doesn’t consider himself to be an especially lucky guy, but he plays every once in a while.
Even though he was joking about playing to win a fuel card, Carter said the new truck will probably make filling up a less frequent occasion.
“My old truck, it gets about 14 miles per gallon,” he said. “I’m sure this one gets a tad bit more than that.”
The 26th edition of the Nebraska Lottery’s popular $2 Truck$ & Buck$ Scratch game featured the 2021 Ford F-150 XLT 4x4 SuperCrew Flex Fuel truck as its top prize. Players had the opportunity to win one of seven Ford F-150 trucks as well as cash and Ethanol-enriched fuel prizes. The truck prize is valued at $56,600, which includes $1,199 for costs associated with ownership and state and federal withholding paid by the Nebraska Lottery of $2,830 and $13,584, respectively. The odds of winning the top prize in Truck$ & Buck$ were 1 in 300,000, while the overall odds of winning any prize were 1 in 3.74.
The mission of the Nebraska Lottery is to generate proceeds for good causes while providing quality entertainment options to Nebraskans. Over $831 million has been raised for the Nebraska Lottery’s beneficiary funds since the Lottery began in 1993. All 93 counties in Nebraska have benefited from projects funded with these Nebraska Lottery proceeds.