A Kansas woman who bought three scratch-off lottery tickets skipped one because she thought there wouldn't be two winners in a row — but she was wrong.
Ruth Wright of Kingman told Kansas Lottery officials she bought three $10 Tiger Pride scratch-off tickets at the White's Foodliner store in Kingman and the first ticket she scratched revealed some good news.
"I bought three tickets, and the first one was a $15 win. So I moved on to the third ticket I bought, since I never have two winners in a row!" Wright said. "The third ticket I bought turned out to be a $10 winner, so I just assumed the one in the middle wasn't going to win anything."
Wright said she then decided to scratch the middle ticket and was pleasantly surprised to discover it was a $75,000 top prize winner.
"I couldn't believe it when I scratched it off. I checked it myself several times, then took it to the register and had them check it for me as well. Everyone agreed it was a big winner!" she said.
Wright said she rushed across the street to C5 Manufacturing so she could show her husband.
"I literally ran across the highway to see him. It wasn't the safest thing I've ever done, but I just couldn't wait to show him!" Wright said. "It took about 10 minutes for him to realize that the ticket was real and we were big winners! I asked him to hold onto the ticket for me, and then went back to work."
Wright said she plans to use her winnings to pay off her bills and invest in a business.
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Wright said she plans to use her winnings to pay off her bulls and invest in a business.
Congratulations to her.
Way ta go Ruthie, you ole scratcher hound you !!! Gotta like it !!
Even if she thought she was wrong Ruth Wright was right!
Women as Ruth is showing us are more likely to invest in business while the men drink it up. LOL
Although it was a small jackpot it really helped to pay those bills. $75,000.00 before taxes.
"Us" are more likely to go back to 3rd grade to learn basic grammar. Actually, make that kindergarten. Actually, make it the embryo.
Well it’s really your fault Sir. I mean in nine years, you have posted only 82 times? You have robbed the forum of your eloquence,in making sure people speak perfect English. Shame on you! You ought to fall on your own sword.
A case for good things happening in clusters of three!
noise-gate, The cold virus going around here on the West Coast might be affecting me. I did reread my thread and it is a bit difficult to read.
While the chances of winning on particular tickets is random. There are still always a set amount of winners in the book. Once I scratched the first 10 tickets from a book, and it had 9 winners. The rest of the book had maybe 2 more. Go figure.
Maybe it's just me, but I cant understand why in the world when players first learn they've won a large sum of money that they would voluntarily hand their big winning ticket to a clerk to have them check/verify it for them!!!
A lot of winners have done it. I've seen it in just about every winners story I've ever read. Sure they're shocked and excited by their big win, but the last person I'd hand a big winning ticket to is someone that I do not even know their first much less their last name!
Because it happens a lot, but you never hear of a clerk trying to steal the ticket and having actually got away with it, many more clerks must be a lot more trustworthy than I give them credit for being. G5
l think it's human nature G5. The disbelief of winning and winning big, is a shock to the system. We do it all the time in other suttle ways. You standing at an intersection and someone gets rear ended, we turn to the person next to you and ask " did you see that?"- it's called Verification, of sorts. But l hear you..
When you think that you have a winning ticket, slow everything down. You have six months to one year to claim your prize.
Whether or not you sign the back of the ticket is State specific. Remember New Hampshire!
Well ‘Gate, in my particular case, my nature would be to say “Holy Cow!” (That ain’t what I’d really say, but the LP censoring software would zap that second word I typed.).
But I guess your right. Most people are a little more civilized than me! G5
l know exactly how you feel G5. There are times, that l feel that the moment l step into a forum, * some folks have their finger hovering over the “ abuse button” to drop the hammer at a moment’s notice. I have never considered myself a lightning rod, but as they say, “it is what it is”...