Wait is on for winner of Alaska ice guessing game
by Mark Thiessen
Associated Press
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In this Thursday, April 12, 2012 file photo, a red flag is whipped by wind on a tripod sitting on the frozen Nenana River on, in Nenana, Alaska. The tripod serves as the basis for Alaska's biggest guessing game, with people buying tickets to guess when the ice will give out and the tripod will fall into the river. That happened at 7:39 p.m. Monday night, April 23, 2012. Ice Classic officials will contact the winners when all of the tickets have been entered. She says that could take another week or so. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) _ It’s Alaska’s version of the Powerball, but the winning ticket holders won’t be known until next week.

There’s no lottery in Alaska, so the state’s most popular guessing game is the Nenana Ice Classic.

People pay $2.50 an entry to guess when the ice will go out on the Tanana River in Nenana and tip the tripod placed on the ice.

The ice went out at 7:39 p.m. Monday at this community about an hour south of Fairbanks. It was early this year.

Entries are being tabulated, and manager Cherrie Forness estimates it will be early next week when the winner is known.

The board of directors will meet Thursday night to determine this year’s jackpot. Last year, 22 winners equally split $338,062.

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