Two lottery players won Minnesota Millionaire Raffle tickets worth $1M

Two lucky lottery players won a whopping sum of $1 million each in Minnesota Millionaire Raffle drawing held on New Year's Day.

The first lottery ticket was sold in Kwik Trip #111 at 12585 58th St. N., in Oak Park Heights. And the second was sold in Lunds & Byerlys at 3777 Park Center Blvd., in St. Louis Park. The store will receive a bonus of $10,000 each for selling the winning scratch-Off ticket. 

The winning prize numbers were: 256490 and 405603.

The Minnesota State Lottery, or Minnesota Lottery, is a government agency that operates lotteries in the U.S. state of Minnesota. 

Minnesota Millionaire Raffle tickets cost ten dollars each and usually sell out around Thanksgiving weekend. There are five 100-thousand-dollar prizes and ten 25-thousand-dollar prizes.