"There was a lot of screaming!"

By Kate Northrop

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A Texas resident was screaming all the way through her celebration when she discovered that the surprise Arkansas Lottery ticket from her husband netted them a $100,000 prize.

A thoughtful gift ended up bringing a Texas woman to Arkansas to claim a $100,000 prize from one of the state's scratch-off tickets.

T. Edgerson of Collin County, Texas, welcomed her husband home from his job. He works as a truck driver and likes buying his wife $5 lottery tickets during his travels.

This time, he brought home the perfect gift: a $5 "Fire and Ice" scratch-off ticket, which he purchased during his stop at Dixon Road Exxon on East Dixon Road in Little Rock, Arkansas.

She couldn't wait to scratch it off when he arrived, and soon followed the dawning realization that they would have to make a return trip to Arkansas to claim the $100,000 top prize.

"There was a lot of screaming," Edgerson relayed to the Arkansas Lottery with a laugh. "We won!"

The pair immediately told their daughter about the win and came up with a plan to spend the winnings on a family trip.

"You just never know when you'll win," Edgerson's husband added in a press release.

Edgerson claimed the first of two available top prizes of $100,000 in the $5 "Fire and Ice" scratch-off game, which just launched this month. All three second-tier prizes of $5,000 remain, as well as eight out of nine third-tier prizes of $1,000.

The overall odds of winning any prize in the game are 1 in 3.67. The game offers more than $4.2 million in cash prizes.