16th October SACRAMENTO – Shared luck can be tasty. Johnny Buck, a 58 year-old retired Lucky’s warehouse worker and his son, Jason Buck, a Target employee, will see a different scenario unfold before their own eyes this month. They have matched all five numbers in Saturday night’s Fantasy 5 drawing. Father and son’s share of the jackpot equals $162,927.
Buck has been playing the lottery for a long time now. He says that he has been feeling lucky especially since he started playing “$250 Million Cash Spectacular” Scratchers. He has been winning small prizes of $200 and $400. And somehow he had a feeling that it would be a matter of time before he actually hit something big. And so he did. Mega lottery
How will this win add some color to Buck’s life? Well, he enjoys trout fishing and says he would like to purchase a motor-home to travel around in and find “some nice little fishing holes around the country.” And with his share this dream can come true anytime soon. As a responsible father, he also has in mind to help out his other two sons who are currently in college.
Buck purchased his winning ticket was at Pinole Valley Arco, which is located at 2747 Pinole Valley Road in Pinole. The winning numbers are 6, 39, 5, 31 and 38. The pun here is, Buck won the jackpot with a buck, yes the ticket for this Fantastic 5 drawing costs only $1.
Saturday night’s $488,781 jackpot was also hit by two other winning tickets. Those tickets were sold in Thousand Oaks and Fountain Valley. The Thousand Oaks ticket however is still waiting to be claimed. Lotteries
Fantasy 5 is a game that offers some of the best odds of any California Lottery game. The way to win this game is simply matching five numbers out of a field of 39. Winning numbers are drawn every day. The top prize starts at $50,000 and it accumulates daily until it gets hit. These $1 tickets are available at more than 21,000 California Lottery retailers.
