Lottery's first "Badger 5" jackpot winner gets
last laugh on teasing husband
Stanley woman claims new game's first prize

(Madison)—Marie Warminski’s husband teased her. You’re never going to win, he said.

On the day he was assuring her of that, Marie was buying a ticket for the Wisconsin Lottery’s “Badger 5” game that would end up winning her the $24,000 jackpot.

Warminski, of Stanley, collected her prize this afternoon at the Lottery’s regional office in Eau Claire.

Warminski’s winning ticket was for the Wednesday night drawing—just the third drawing ever--in the Lottery’s new “Badger 5” game daily on-line game. Players pick five numbers from a field of 31 and try to match those five numbers to the winning numbers drawn each night.

The “Badger 5” jackpot starts at $10,000 and grows a minimum of $1,000 a day until it is won. The new game began on Monday. Between Monday and Wednesday, the jackpot had rolled and grown from $10,000 to $24,000.

That’s when Warminksi stepped in. Saying that she thought the odds “sounded pretty good,” Warminski went to the Express Mart at 401 S. Broadway in Stanley and purchased $3 worth of “Badger 5” quick-pick tickets.

One set of those numbers—01, 07, 18, 27 and 30—proved to be the winning numbers.

Warminski said she and her husband recently had to make $20,000 in repairs to one of the trucks they use in their milk hauling business so the money comes at a good time.

It also came at a perfect time to put an end to her husband’ teasing. At least for awhile.