North Platte Man wins Nebraska Lottery’s Truck$ and Buck$

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (KNOP) – A North Platte man is the seventh winner of a 2023 Ford F-150 XLT SuperCrew Flex Fuel truck in the Nebraska Lottery’s 28th Truck$ and Buck$ Scratch game.

According to a press release from the Nebraska Lottery, Lucas Swarthout of North Platte purchased his winning ticket at Kwik Stop on South Jeffers Street in North Platte. Swarthout was presented with his new truck at Kwik Stop on Monday by lottery officials.

Back in the early fall of 2023, Swarthout bought himself a Truck$ & Buck$ ticket, put it in his glove box, and then promptly forgot about it. That’s where it stayed until February when he found it by coincidence. “I was cleaning out my glove box,” Swarthout said. “I was looking for a VIN number on my other vehicle and found the ticket in there unscratched,” said Swarthout.

The ticket had been in there for months, he said, and Truck$ & Buck$ isn’t a game he plays very often. He just had an inkling and went for it. Swarthout said he originally wasn’t too sure if he’d be keeping the new truck until he found out that the taxes and registration are taken care of by the Nebraska Lottery. “That just makes it better,” he said. “When you find out there’s no financial strings attached to it,” said Swarthout.

The 28th edition of the Nebraska Lottery’s popular $2 Truck$ & Buck$ Scratch game features the 2023 Ford F-150 XLT 4×4 SuperCrew Flex Fuel truck as its top prize. Players have the opportunity to win one of eight Ford F-150 trucks as well as cash and Ethanol-enriched fuel prizes. The truck prize is valued at $81,000, which includes $1,160 for costs associated with ownership and state and federal withholding paid by the Nebraska Lottery of $4,050 and $19,400, respectively. The odds of winning the top prize in Truck$ & Buck$ are 1 in 336,000, while the overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.69, according to a press release from the Nebraska Lottery.

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