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A Very Winning Weekend: Over $2.7 Million In Prizes Won By Lucky Illinois Lottery Pick 3 And Pick 4 Players

October 9th, 2023


CHICAGO, October 9, 2023 – It was a big payday for thousands of Illinois Lottery Pick 3 and Pick 4 players over the weekend, taking home more than $2.7 million in total prizes. 

The winning numbers for Pick 4 in the Saturday, October 7 evening drawing were 5-4-4-4 with a FIREBALL of 4.

More than 2,500 lucky Pick 4 players won over $1.6 million in total prizes across the state of Illinois.

One lucky player won $25,000 after purchasing the winning ticket at F & C Amoco in the 2800 block of W. Fullerton Ave. in Chicago, and another lucky player won $24,000 playing Pick 4 online. Twenty other Pick 4 winning tickets garnered players $2,500 each and over 2,000 tickets for the Saturday evening drawing earned players between $750-$600 each.

The luck didn’t stop there. The Saturday midday drawing for Pick 3 produced over 5,300 winning tickets, netting players more than $630,000 in total prizes.

The winning Pick 3 numbers in the Saturday, October 7 midday drawing were 1-2-3 with a FIREBALL of 4.

Overall on the Saturday, October 7 midday and evening drawings of both Pick 3 and Pick 4 games, nearly 12,000 winning tickets were sold, netting Illinois Lottery players $2.7 million in total prizes.

Lottery players holding winning tickets have one year from the date of the draw to claim their prize. Prizes over $600 must be claimed at an Illinois Lottery Claim Center. The Illinois Lottery encourages all its winners to write their name on the back of their ticket and keep it in a safe place until they’re ready to claim their prize.

Pick 3 and Pick 4 plus FIREBALL are Illinois-only games with two draws daily. To play both Pick 3 and Pick 4 games, players can select their numbers and a style of play, and then choose the amount they would like to wager on the draw.

Pick 3 and Pick 4 drawings are conducted daily at 12:40 PM and 9:22 PM CST.  For more information, visit IllinoisLottery.com.

 

About the Illinois Lottery

Founded in 1974, the Illinois Lottery has contributed over $24 billion (since 1985) to the state’s Common School Fund to assist K-12 public schools, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars to the Capital Projects Fund and to special causes. For more information, visit IllinoisLottery.com.