Major Prize Winners: 2000 Metro

Date Amount Game/Promotion Name Town
12/27/00 $100,000 Powerball John Chiantera Blaine
12/13/00 $100,000 Powerball Jose and Stephanie Lusarreta Coon Rapids
11/21/00 $100,000 Gopher 5 Nhan Le White Bear Lake
11/18/00 $100,000 Powerball Danne Dufner Plymouth
11/11/00 $100,000 Powerball Maynard McManus Inver Grove Heights
11/08/00 $100,000 Powerball The Dempsey Dollars (pool) Mounds View
11/02/00 $100,000 Casino Nights Toni Goble Coon Rapids
10/31/00 $73,694 Rolldown David Brown Marine on St. Croix
10/27/00 $285,908 Gopher 5 Thomas Denk Inver Grove Heights
10/17/00 $100,000 Casino Nights Jon Blomquist Blaine
10/14/00 $100,000 Powerball Peter Mansavage Prior Lake
10/06/00 $110,000 Gopher 5 Charles Borak Chaska
09/20/00 $100,000 Powerball Michael Petersen Minneapolis
09/15/00 $100,000 Casino Nights Andrew Reinhard Loretto
09/13/00 $100,000 Casino Nights David Olson Vadnais Heights
09/11/00 $100,000 Casino Nights Richard Knowlton Little Canada
09/06/00 $100l,000 Powerball Howard and Shirley Holden Little Canada
09/05/00 $110,000 Gopher 5 Alfred Degidio St. Paul
08/17/00 $22.9 Million Powerball James W. Lewis Eagan
07/19/00 $100,000 Powerball Trung V. Dao Minneapolis
06/23/00 $682,172 Gopher 5** Louise Lang Minnetonka
06/23/00 $682,172 Gopher 5** Thomas Cieklinski Ramsey
06/08/00 $100,000 Casino Buffet Frank Baros Columbia Heights
06/07/00 $250,000 10th Anniv. Golden Ticket Game Nan Wineman Brooklyn Center
05/25/00 $100,000 Powerball Carl Hintzen Apple Valley
05/16/00 $100,000 Casino Buffet Keith and Shelley Ruff Shakopee
05/09/00 $213,964 Gopher 5 Andrew Hoffman Roseville
05/02/00 $250,000 10th Anniv. Golden Ticket Game John Ganrud Bloomington
05/01/00 $250,000 10th Anniv. Golden Ticket Game Donna Edquist Cedarburg, WI (Bought in Woodbury)
04/15/00 $100,000 Powerball Mary Thielen Brooklyn Center
04/14/00 $35,666 Gopher 5** Gloria Anderson Minneapolis
04/14/00 $36,666 Gopher 5** Emanuel Ard Minneapolis
04/08/00 $100,000 Powerball Anh Nguyen Brooklyn Park
04/08/00 $50,000 Cash4Life Nancy Nguyen Shakopee
04/07/00 $136,717 Gopher 5 Kenneth Elverhoy St. Paul
03/29/00 $100,000 Powerball Craig Engstrom Circle Pines
03/24/00 $100,000 Cash4Life James Sorenson Minneapolis
03/22/00 $100,000 Casino Buffet Bryan Dutcher Chisago City
03/04/00 $100,000 Powerball George Smith St. Louis Park
03/04/00 $100,000 Powerball John Alberg Centerville
03/04/00 $100,000 Powerball Fireside Breakfast Pool (six people) West St. Paul
02/23/00 $100,000 Powerball Thomas Yang St. Paul
02/04/00 $464,591 Gopher 5 Martin Van Beck Eagan
01/31/00 $100,000 Powerball Frank Arellano Blaine
01/20/99 $100,000 Powerball Wallace Wixon Prior Lake
01/10/00 $244,995 Gopher 5 Timothy Carter and Suzanne Mosley Minneapolis
01/05/00 $100,000 Viva Las Vegas Clara Mae Baskett Minneapolis
01/03/00 $100,000 Viva Las Vegas David Asplund Mounds View

*Denotes one winning ticket split at winners' discretion.
**Denotes a prize split among multiple winning tickets.
This list includes all metro area major prize winners in 2000.