Hot Streak Continues in CT’s “Lucky for Life” Draw Game

As Connecticut swelters in a massive heat wave this week, the CT Lottery’s “Lucky for Life” game is experiencing a “hot streak” of its own.  On the heels of Connecticut’s most recent Lucky for Life “$1,000 a day for life” top prize win, lucky Mark Dobuzinsky of Branford purchased a Lucky for Life ticket for the July 18th drawing and won the game’s second-prize for $25,000.

On July 18, the “special birthday numbers” that Dobuzinsky played missed matching the Lucky Ball number, 21, but matched five of the winning numbers drawn; 1 - 7 - 16 - 24 – 26, for a prize match worth $25,000.

“I usually watch the drawing on TV, but last night I fell asleep,” Dobuzinsky told lottery officials.  “I woke up at around 12:30am, logged onto the lottery’s website (ctlottery.org) and immediately saw the numbers were a match.  I signed the ticket and then told my wife and daughter that we won $25,000.  We were so excited, nobody slept after that!”

Today, Dobuzinsky and his family arrived at CT Lottery headquarters in Rocky Hill to claim his $25,000 prize.  “We’ll pay off a couple bills and help our grandkids.  It’s definitely going to help a lot in a number of ways,” Dobuzinsky said. 

Dobuzinsky purchased his winning ticket at Big Y World Class Market #12, located at 1060 W. Main Street in Branford.

Across New England, 64,299 winning Lucky for Life tickets were purchased for July 18.  A total of 21,430 tickets were sold in CT alone with prizes ranging from $2 to $25,000.  Lucky for Life’s top prize is worth a life-altering $1,000 a day, every day for life.

Since the first “Lucky for Life” drawing was held on March 15, 2012, there have been more than 3,100,000 Lucky winning tickets sold in CT alone, including 3 top prize winning tickets, each worth $1,000 a day for life, and 33 second-prize winning tickets, each worth $25,000.