One in a million

The Bow River Crossing (Bow River) convenience store in Elk Mountain made someone a winner on Oct. 21 when they purchased a winning Cowboy Draw Wyo Lottery ticket worth $1,165,543.

According to Bill Jones, proprietor for Bow River, the winner has contacted lottery commission but has not redeemed it at any outlet as of going to print.

The store's take for selling the winning ticket is $2,000.

"I had thought it was going to be a percentage," Jones said. "$2,000 is pretty good, but you know we were hoping for a little more. One percent would have been a little over $10,000."

Jones said a person from the Wyoming Lottery Corporation had come to explain what would happen.

Jones said he did ask the representative why it was not a percentage as is the case in some other states.

"She told me that I had to remember that we are new and just getting started," Jones said. "She said they aren't California or Colorado."

He said the commission would be sending a banner that would say that a winning ticket had sold at Bow River.

Jones said the individual had 90 days to redeem the ticket and they could go to any establishment that sold the tickets.

Jones said 29 tickets had been sold on that day and, because it was after a University of Wyoming football game, it had been a two for one purchase. This means there were optimally 58 chances to have scored the winning ticket out of Bow River that day.

"It definitely got us a little attention," Jones concluded.