ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Vicky Vasquez of Las Cruces is on a lucky streak, winning two New Mexico Lottery Scratcher prizes in the past two weeks.
On April 11, Vasquez claimed a $3,000 prize from the lottery's $3 "Crossword Cash Multiplier."
Yesterday, she claimed a $50,000 prize from the $5 "Red Hot Cherries" Scratcher.
"It feels good, but it's a shocker," Vasquez said on her run of good fortune.
Vasquez said she bought the ticket paying $50,000 late last week and played it four days later.
"I have a superstition," she said. "I buy them and then I put them in an envelope to marinate."
Vasquez said she plans to use her five-figure windfall to buy a car and make a down payment on a home.
She bought both tickets at Pic Quik No. 3 located at 1501 E. Amador Ave. in Las Cruces. Previously, the store has sold two other large prize-winning lottery tickets paying $15,000 and $30,000.
Nice...'wish she gets more tickets and marinate them so she could payout her mortgage...hehehe
She doesn't look too happy: (just take the dang picture already...)
Maybe that's because of New Mexico's draconian requirements on publication of winners:
"I understand that the New Mexico Lottery Authority and its retailers and advertising agencies as well as the news media and their editors may use my name and photograph for reproduction in any medium they see fit for the purposes of advertising, display, exhibition or editorial use."
Congrats to the winner.
Congrats!
I'm happy to see all these stories of multiple wins within a short period of each other.
Maybe I should start marinating my tickets too.
Congrats Vicky, enjoy!
Congratulation Vicki
She does not look too happy on the picture.
Lol...it's not enough.
I wonder how much she spent to win those prizes. It makes sense to play jackpot games instead.
, mrcraft, and congratulations on your lottery wins Vicky!
Sounds like the onion reporting again with these goofy stories, just can't be real.
Lottery advertising?
It's stories like this that makes me sometimes want to go out and start runing while screaming, this is unfreaking fair!!!
I feel you Goteki!!!! I'm so jealous!!