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February 22, 2020
The largest jackpot won by a Fort Wayne resident: In the record reached, the biggest lottery prize ever claimed by a Fort Wayne resident is the $9.8 million Hoosier Lotto jackpot of Saturday, February 22, 2020, claimed by Brad Miller, a Fort Wayne resident and business owner. Miller was an electrician of more than forty years' standing who told the Lottery he had played Hoosier Lotto for thirty years and missed about five drawings in all that time. He bought the winning ticket at Cap N' Cork Liquors, 7002 Bluffton Road, in Fort Wayne. He claimed the prize at Hoosier Lottery headquarters in Indianapolis on February 26, 2020, with Executive Director Sarah Taylor presenting it, and the Lottery announced the claim on February 28. Miller took the one-time lump sum of $4,808,946.00 rather than the annuity, and said he had no plans for immediate retirement. The distinction this section keeps: the $9.8 million is the jackpot as drawn; what a lump-sum winner receives before taxes is the smaller figure, and both are printed because the record gives both.
Sources:
- Hoosier Lottery news release, "$9.8 million Hoosier Lotto jackpot claimed by Fort Wayne winner" (February 28, 2020) — the winner, the store, the claim date, and the lump sum of $4,808,946.00.