Lottery and Crypto in Mishawaka

Lottery & Crypto

Mishawaka has played the state's game since the first Hoosier Lottery scratch-off tickets were sold on October 13, 1989 — and Mishawaka holds a place in that game most Indiana cities do not: one of the Lottery's three Prize Payment Centers, the North Region office, sits in this city, at 230 Red Coach Drive, so northern Indiana's winners have come to Mishawaka to be paid almost as long as the game has existed. The documented wins themselves are specific and, at the top, unusual. No ticket sold in Mishawaka, and no Mishawaka resident, has won a Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot in any record reached for this section. What the record does hold at the million-dollar line is stranger than a jackpot: a $1 million television prize in 2000 on an entry ticket bought at a Mishawaka Kroger; a legitimate $1 million scratch-off ticket sold to a Mishawaka resident inside a game that a Lottery security officer was charged with rigging in 2004, the resident's name never published; and a $1 million Mega Millions ticket sold on McKinley Avenue in 2022 whose holder the Lottery's record never names at all. Below those stand the verified smaller wins — $100,000, $50,000, $50,000 — each with a store, a game and, in two cases, a name. Around the state game stands the licensed small game of the posts, clubs, parishes and school boosters, which the Indiana Gaming Commission's own fiscal-2025 listings seat in Mishawaka by name and by dollar. And cryptocurrency, the newer windfall, reaches this city's record later and thinner than the lottery ever did: no Mishawaka crypto firm, no Mishawaka bank selling Bitcoin, no Mishawaka crypto prosecution in the federal record searched — only the kiosks that stood in the city's stores and groceries, and the day Indiana, first in the nation, banned them: March 9, 2026.

A note on the record itself, because this section depends on it. Indiana lottery winners are public record, and the Hoosier Lottery publishes winner stories and sale-location releases; this fragment prints names, amounts and stores exactly as that record gives them, and it keeps the distinction the record keeps — between a prize won by a Mishawaka resident and a prize ticket merely sold in Mishawaka — throughout. Where the record gives a sale and no claimant, the article says so and stops. Where a search was run and returned nothing, the search is printed. That discipline, not any shortage of play, is why some articles below are short.