ALBUQUERQUE – A Roswell woman claimed a $400,000 Powerball® prize from the New Mexico Lottery Monday.
Mary Davis matched five of the six winning numbers from Saturday’s drawing. Matching five numbers ordinarily pays a $200,000 prize, but because Davis added the game’s Power Play® option to her quick-pick wager, her prize was doubled. For an extra $1 per wager, Power Play multiplies non-jackpot prizes by two, three, four or five times, depending on the Power Play number drawn. On Saturday, “two” was drawn as the multiplier.
Davis discovered her $400,000 prize after checking the winning Powerball numbers on the lottery’s website.
“It was a total surprise,” she recalled for lottery officials in Albuquerque. “I looked at the ticket and I couldn’t believe it.”
With her sudden windfall, Davis will retire her home loan and pay other bills.
Davis purchased her winning ticket at the Chevron FoodMart No. 46 at 917 N. Main St. in Roswell. This lottery retailer has sold 14 other large prize-winning lottery tickets ranging between $1,000 and $15,000.
Also from Roswell, Scratcher™ players Gary Hutchens and Selma Villalobos each claimed $1,000 prizes during November.
In late September, nine Roswell-area residents won a $207 million Powerball jackpot, the New Mexico Lottery’s largest prize ever. The winning ticket was purchased by homemaker Holly Baldwin.
