He plans to put his prize into savings. The area has had its share of big Lottery winners. About 550 public, private, parochial and State high school graduates from Otero and Lincoln Counties have qualified for Lottery Success Scholarships to attend college, including NMSU s Alamogordo campus and ENMU s Ruidoso campus. More than 13,000 Lottery scholarship recipients have attended New Mexico colleges and universities since the program began, according to data from the New Mexico Commission on Higher Education. The New Mexico Lottery offers three different types of games.
Top prizes vary by game.
New Mexico education is the sole beneficiary.