HELENA — The Montana Lottery drew the winning ticket number for the 2019 Montana Millionaire game on Friday morning.
The grand-prize winning ticket is number 042230. It was sold at a Town Pump in Kalispell.
All 180,000 tickets of the $20 tickets were sold out by 1:12 p.m. on December 2nd - five days earlier than in 2018. That is the earliest date in the game’s 13-year history.
Montana Lottery spokesperson Jennifer McKee said, "It was amazing this year. I mean we actually added 30,000 tickets. We usually sell 150,000, this year we went up to 180,000 in part because it was selling out so quickly. We wanted to, number one, expand the prizes, and two just sell more and give people more chances."
In addition to the million-dollar grand prize, there is also one $250,000 prize, three $100,000 prizes, and four $10,000 prizes.
Here are the big prizes and the winning ticket numbers from Friday's drawing:
- 042230: $1,000,000 - Town Pump #3 in Kalispell
- 006944: $250,000 - Reynold's Market in Baker
- 100758: $100,000 - Agland Co-op in Wolf Point
- 052770: $100,000 - Town Pump #2810 in Helena
- 052564: $100,000 - TJ's Quik Stop in Poplar
- 063113: $10,000 - Town Pump #3900 in Thompson Falls
- 083973: $10,000 - Super 1 Foods in Kalispell/Evergreen
- 170668: $10,000 - Town Pump #2 in Dillon
- 147078: $10,000 - Pattee Creek Market in Missoula
There are also 750 prizes of $500, and 550 prizes of $100. Click here to visit the Montana Lottery website.
The winning numbers were chosen by a certified random number generator at the Lottery Office in Helena. A relatively simple computer, its only job is to draw random numbers for the lottery’s state games. The Lottery takes a lot of precautions to ensure the random number generator's integrity. The machine is audited by a third party regularly, kept in a secure room that is always under surveillance, and it takes a minimum of three people just to access the room.
The winning numbers were chosen by a certified random number generator at the Lottery Office in Helena. A relatively simple computer, its only job is to draw random numbers for the lottery’s state games. The Lottery takes a lot of precautions to ensure the random number generator's integrity. The machine is audited by a third party regularly, kept in a secure room that is always under surveillance, and it takes a minimum of three people just to access the room.
Most of the revenue from Montana Lottery games go into the Montana General Fund, with a smaller portion going into scholarships for Montana STEM Scholarship Program.
The winning million-dollar ticket has been sold in Billings four times since the game debuted in 2007. Stores in Great Falls and Butte have sold the grand-prize ticket twice each. Here is the list of all grand prize winners from previous years:
