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The Nenana Ice Classic is an annual ice pool contest held in Nenana, Alaska. It is an event in which individuals attempt to guess the exact time the Tanana River ice will break up at Nenana. [1] Tickets are on sale from February 1 through April 5 of each year throughout Alaska. The Nenana Ice Classic is a non-profit charitable gaming organization.
Apr. 27—The ice on the Tanana River went out early Saturday morning, stopping the clock in the Nenana Ice Classic, the century-old Interior Alaska river breakup guessing game. A 30-foot-tall ...
May 3—NENANA — The ice on the Tanana River went out Monday evening in the Interior Alaska town of Nenana, ending the annual Nenana Ice Classic guessing game. The black-and-white tripod, set up ...
Each year, thousands pay $3.00 to guess the exact date and minute the Tanana River ice will go out in Nenana. The Nenana Ice Classic is a fundraiser for local charities and has awarded some large prizes. In 2010, after the ice went out on April 29, three lottery winners split a jackpot of $279,030. [13] In 2012, the record prize was $350,000. [14]
For more than a century, Alaskans in the small town of Nenana, about 55 miles southwest of Fairbanks, have been competing in the Nenana Ice Classic, a guessing game run by a non-profit charitable ...
Residents of Nenana sponsor the Nenana Ice Classic, a nature-based lottery. Entrants buy a ticket and pick a date in April or May and a time, to the closest minute, when they think the winter ice on the Tanana River will break up. This lottery began in 1917 among a group of surveyors working for the Alaska Railroad.
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The Nenana River (Lower Tanana: Nina No’) is a tributary of the Tanana River, approximately 140 miles (230 km) long, in central Alaska in the United States. [3] It drains an area on the north slope of the Alaska Range on the south edge of the Tanana Valley southwest of Fairbanks .