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WISCONSIN (CBS 58) -- Wisconsin just awarded its biggest jackpot in history after a West Allis man claimed his Powerball prize last week. 

If you want to be Wisconsin's next big winner, CBS 58's Lindsey Branwall looked over the numbers to find the luckiest places in the state. 

The Pewaukee Corner Pump is still buzzing, two years after they sold a winning $150 million Powerball ticket. 

"We've gained a reputation for being a place to go for the lottery," Pewaukee Corner Pump owner Ed McMahon said. 

The Wisconsin Lottery has recently nicknamed the state "Winsconsin" since the $768 million Powerball ticket was sold in New Berlin and claimed last week by Manuel Franco of West Allis. 

"I honestly felt so lucky that I did look at the camera and I wanted to wink at it because I had that lucky feeling," Franco said in a press conference where he came forward to claim his prize. 

"The ripple effect of a ticket being sold at a gas station is it just creates an amount of excitement around that gas station, that 'is that gas station the lucky gas station now?' 'Should I buy my tickets at that gas station, now?' We've seen that but, then certainly that can go away and another gas station will win in the future and suddenly that's the lucky gas station," Wisconsin Lottery Director Cindy Polzin said. 

Polzin says sales increased three-fold after Speedway sold Franco's winning ticket.

CBS 58 decided to take a closer look to find Wisconsin's luckiest places, sorting through every lottery winning over $600 for nearly 10 years from 2010 through March of 2019. Manuel Franco's win was not on the list because he hadn't yet come forward. 

To see how your city ranks based on the amount of winning tickets sold and the total amount of all those winning tickets, please click here. 


Top 10 Locations (by number of winning tickets sold):

WOODMAN'S FOOD MKT #16 MADISON

 156

MARATHON MINI MART MILWAUKEE 

135

KEEFE AVE MOBIL/SAHEJ LLC MILWAUKEE 

106

S & V PETROLEUM INC MILWAUKEE 

99   

KORNELI'S MAIN STREET EXPRESS FOND DU LAC  

99

HANSENS BP FOND DU LAC   

93

WOODMAN'S FOOD MKT #14 BELOIT

92

SENTRY FOODS #2839 MILWAUKEE   

88

WOODMAN'S FOOD MKT #20 MADISON

86

PICK N SAVE #6845 MILWAUKEE

65


Top 10 Locations (by greatest amount won):

PEWAUKEE CORNER PUMP PEWAUKEE

$156,234,100

A & I SERVICES LLC MILWAUKEE  

$22,746,858

PIGGLY WIGGLY #037 RACINE

$8,023,125

KWIK TRIP #417 OCONOMOWOC  

$6,365,928

LAKESHORE LIGHTHOUSE LLC KEWAUNEE

$4,010,600

PUSWINDER LLC SHEBOYGAN

$3,632,000

RITEWAY PLAZA SPRING GREEN  

$3,120,236

CARDINAL SERVICE INC HARTLAND

$3,071,013

FESTIVAL FOODS GREEN BAY

$2,981,781

KWIK TRIP #742 OSHKOSH

$2,802,500

                                         

Top 10 Cities (by # of tickets):

MILWAUKEE

8,595

RACINE 1,895
MADISON 1,679
KENOSHA 1,231
WEST ALLIS 971
WAUKESHA 930
FOND DU LAC 929
JANESVILLE 844
GREEN BAY 839
APPLETON 830


Top 10 Cities (by greatest $):

PEWAUKEE

$157,341,236

MILWAUKEE

$67,869,452

MADISON

$28,292,793

RACINE

$21,634,676

GREEN BAY

$11,914,577

KENOSHA

$10,995,495

SHEBOYGAN

$10,056,415

FOND DU LAC

$9,764,037

OCONOMOWOC

$8,820,364

OSHKOSH

$7,499,027


Top 10 Cities with highest amount per ticket (average amount per ticket, number of tickets)

PEWAUKEE

$580,595

271

KEWAUNEE

$186,130 

22

WABENO

$150,686

7
GORDON

$144,286 

7
HOLLANDALE

$117,667

3
SPRING GREEN

$92,460

36
MERRILLIAN

$87,005

7
POY SIPPI

$77,846

13
MINDORO

$67,333

3
MOUNT HOREB

$64,000

16


Top 10 games by # of tickets

Pick 4

8,335

Super 2nd Chance 

4,788

SuperCash! 

4,206

MATCH $1,000 

3,035

HIT $1,000 

2,447

Mega Millions 

1,781

$1,000 FAST CASH 

1,662

$1,000 BANKROLL 

1,654

$1,000 RICHTER! 

1,639

$1,000 OVERALL 

1,637


“Pick 4” Top 10 Winning Cities

MILWAUKEE 

4,270

RACINE 

494

MADISON 

312

WEST ALLIS

168

KENOSHA

160

GLENDALE 

160

BELOIT

99
WAUWATOSA 96
WAUKESHA 94
GREENFIELD 87


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