Players that stopped by the Lottery booth during the Minnesota State Fair purchased lots of Lottery tickets and we had lots of big winners! Players got a free gift with their purchase and could win the chance to spin the Giant Wheel for more prizes. Players also dropped their non-winning tickets in the drawing drum for a second chance to win. Every day of the fair, one lucky player was drawn to win the $1,000. These 12 lucky players each won $1,000!

8/26 Carol Courant of Chisago City
8/27 Matt Johnson of Zumbrota
8/28 Marlys Pavel of Prior Lake
8/29 Corey Whiteford of Maple Grove
8/30 Craig Hassell of St. Paul
8/31 Brian Anderson of Cottage Grove
9/1 Patricia Watson of Columbia Heights
9/2 Linda Hodgin of Cottage Grove
9/3 Bee Vang of Woodbury
9/4 Vicki Albu of S. St. Paul
9/5 Dan Brabant of Coon Rapids
9/6 Jerry Phillips of Mankato

TEAM #665 - Katie Eilertson, Jesse Watland and Brent Haldorson, won the Suite Deal Package at WE Fest. WE Festers could purchase a Suite Deal Package that included 12 limited edition T-shirts and an entry for the chance to win the Vikings Suite valued at $6800. The Vikings Suite includes 12 tickets to the December 12 Vikings home game against the New York Giants, seating in one of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome Suites plus food and non-alcoholic beverages. Bet they won't have a hard time finding some friends to go with them to the game!

Bryce Moen from Frazee, MN won the custom Fender guitar on the WE Fest stage playing our Giant Vikings scratch game. The guitar was autographed by Keith Urban and other performers at WE Fest. Looks like he might be the next WE Fest star!

Check out Doug Peterson's lucky scraper. He scratched off lots of winning tickets at WE Fest with this giant ticket scraper!

Lottery Regional Manager, Doug Landsman, with a group of Lottery playing friends at WE Fest. This group, including from left to right Doug Landsman, Lisa DeBoer, Tracy Dirks, Rhonda Groen, Belinda Neyman, Jenny Rost, Mark DeBoer, Chad Schultz, Ken Groen, Greg Neyman, purchased a Suite Deal pack to get 12 Lottery T-shirts and an entry for the chance to win a suite at a Vikings home game. Is that Victor in the background?

Mike "Muss" Mussman of the K102 Morning Crew presented Jennifer Resemius of New Brighton with her Grand Prize Road Trip for 4 to the Vikings game in Green Bay. Congratulations Jennifer!

We had a great time at the Vikings scratch ticket launch party!

Lots of Lottery and Vikings fans came out to join us at Mall of America® on July 24. Vikings great Bob Lurtsema stopped by to play some games and share a few jokes. We gave away tickets to Vikings home games, autographed footballs, Vikings scratch tickets and lots more.

Randy Kronebusch of Winona was the Lucky MN winner of two tickets to a Vikings home game and a $100 Visa gift card.