HENRICO, Va. -- There were two winners for the ticket giveaway to the PokémonGo night at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, on Thursday, July 21.
We announced the randomly selected winners on the CBS 6 11 p.m. newscast, Wednesday, July 20.
Congratulations to winners Jennifer Frech and Ley Willis! You each have two tickets waiting for you at Lewis Ginter Will Call. Have fun!
To enter the contest, people submitted a picture of their Pokédex through our CBS 6 news app. The deadline to enter to win was July 20, at 8 p.m.
About the event
The water and grassland ecosystem at the Garden attracts many Pokémon, including some rare ones. Garden staff will use lures to help bring out the pocket monsters, from 5 to 8:30 p.m. and the event ends by 9 p.m.
"Encouraging visitors to play Pokémo GO here at the Garden is really a natural fit for us – we love to see people be active, getting outside and enjoying the beautiful garden setting and blooms," said Jonah Holland, with Public Relations. "It’s been great for not just us, but for many of the Richmond Region cultural attractions – Maymont, the Science Museum of Virginia, VMFA and others are also welcoming players.
Some of the more common Pokémon found at Lewis Ginter includes; Caterpie, Krabby, Magikarp, Paras, Pidgey, Pidgeotto, Poliwag, Psyduck, Rattata, Spearow, Tentacool, Venonat, and Weedle – according to the Garden.
In addition, the Garden writes that they also have some more uncommon Pokémon:
- Clefairy (# 035)
- Vulpix (# 037)
- Oddish (# 043)
- Gloom (# 044)
- Venomoth (# 049)
- Golduck (# 055)
- Growlithe (# 058)
- Poliwhirl (# 061)
- Abra (# 063)
- Tentacruel (# 073)
- Slowpoke (# 079)
- Slowbro (# 080)
- Farfetch’d (# 083)
- Gastly (# 092)
- Voltorb (# 100)
- Exeggcute (# 102)
- Horsea (# 116)
- Seadra (# 117)
- Goldeen (# 118)
- Seaking (# 119)
- Scyther (# 123)
- Jynx (# 124)
- Pinsir (# 127)
- Tauros (# 128)
- Lapras (# 131)
- Eevee (# 133)
- Vaporeon (# 134)
- Dratini (# 147)
- Dragonair (# 148)
** Please note this list is not comprehensive, nor is meant as a guarantee that you will find any of the listed Pokémon during a visit to the Garden.
This event takes place during the "Flowers after 5" seasonal series, so there will be food, drink and music while you run around hunting pocket monsters.
