Vicksburg player wins more than $200,000 in Mississippi Lottery
Published 7:17 am Tuesday, March 5, 2024
A Vicksburg player’s Friday night turned into a winning weekend when they won the $209,999 Mississippi Match 5 jackpot from the March 1 drawing.
The player matched all five numbers and purchased the ticket from Suds N Smokes in Vicksburg.
“The player loves Match 5 and used the Quick Pick option for some numbers and chose the other numbers,” Mississippi Lottery officials said in a release. “As they watched the news Friday night, the player thought some of the winning numbers looked like theirs. Upon verifying the numbers the next morning, the realization of matching all five numbers and winning the jackpot sunk in.”