News Release Nebraska Lottery
Todd Spark of Papillion is the third 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.
Spark’s wife Robyn Spark purchased his winning Truck$ & Buck$ ticket at Casey’s General Store #2441 at 609 Magnolia Ave. in Papillion.
When Nebraska Lottery officials presented Spark with his truck on Friday, March 26 at Casey’s he said they’d heard a Truck$ & Buck$ commercial on the radio and jokingly asked Robyn, “Why don’t you win us a truck?”
They’d been purchasing Truck$ & Buck$ tickets for a few months, and Robyn picked up a few more tickets on Friday, March 19 before scratching them off on Sunday.
Spark said he was in the garage when Robyn came in yelling, “Truck, truck, truck!”
The 26th edition of the Nebraska Lottery’s popular $2 Truck$ & Buck$ Scratch game features the 2021 Ford F-150 XLT 4x4 SuperCrew Flex Fuel truck as its top prize. Players have 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$ are 1 in 300,000, while the overall odds of winning any prize are 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 $803 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.