Woman finds lottery ticket from losing pile was $300,000 winner

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helpmewinchris — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 15:00:15 GMT

The lottery loves producing this game as the amount of mistakes people make on Crossword is probably more than any other game. A lot of those winners don't wind up in piles like hers but wind up in the garbage. Great luck for her to keep them and have it end this way. Good story.

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dannyct — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 07:12:49 GMT

This is exactly why I play by subscription, you can't loose your ticket.

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Litebets27 — Sat, 15 Dec 2018 19:21:46 GMT

that's funny. I can relate.

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TheMeatman2005 — Sat, 15 Dec 2018 01:34:50 GMT

It's a good thing she didn't throw it away.

She would never know she won if she hadn't tried to enter it for second chance drawing.

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noise-gate — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:49:43 GMT

What a tremendously good story to start the weekend off. I like that she did not give her name out, if she had: Vultures* long lost lowlife relatives, would have been circling overhead by now.

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Bleudog101 — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:28:53 GMT

Couldn't have asked for a better early Christmas present. Thanks for posting this great story.

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music* — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:21:53 GMT

This lucky 62-year old woman found 6 GREEN WORDS on Puzzle #2. Her luck turned $5 into $300,000.00

I am relieved that she did not really experience a heart attack. She is now blessed and can cut back on her work hours.

Congratulations to her

Comment #2

Raven62 — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 14:38:18 GMT

Just goes to show you: The Lottery has your back by not letting you enter a winning ticket into the second chance drawing

Comment #1

CDanaT — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 14:29:04 GMT

Ya know....... I do that very same thing. Enter my $3 crossword scratchers in for 2nd chance draws. The little redish warning comes on and tells me the numbers I entered are not eligible. So I go back though and check them, then re-enter them again. When that same warning comes up. I know I have a winner. The only difference between her ticket results and mine is about $297,997.

Woman finds lottery ticket from losing pile was $300,000 winner

Lottery Post — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 13:55:34 GMT

A Michigan woman said she wouldn't have realized her scratch-off lottery ticket was worth $300,000 if she hadn't tried to enter it in a second chance game.

The 64-year-old Otsego County woman told Michigan Lottery officials she bought the Double Bonus Cashword game from the Marathon gas station in Gaylord and it ended up in her pile of non-winners when she finished scratching it off.

The woman said she didn't know anything was amiss until she tried to enter her losing tickets for second ch... [ More ]