Woman puzzled by lottery winnings checks Missouri ticket 4 times. ‘This isn’t right’
A Missouri Lottery player was in disbelief over her big Powerball win that caused her to check her ticket over and over, officials say.
The woman purchased the Powerball ticket at a Walmart in Springfield, and a notification she received on the Missouri Lottery mobile app pointed to good news. But she had no idea just how good.
“It said something like, ‘Go to a Missouri Lottery office,’” she told lottery officials. “So I knew I won over $600.”
The woman, who remained anonymous, soon realized she was a $50,000 winner of the July 31 drawing, the Missouri Lottery said in a Friday, Sept. 8, news release. Her ticket matched four of the five white balls — 2, 11, 48, 58 and 65.
She said her big win “couldn’t have come at a better time.”
“When I saw them, I was like, ‘That can’t be right. This isn’t right,’” she said. “I checked that ticket four times.”
Powerball costs $2 to play and offers a jackpot of $20 million, which increases until a winning ticket is claimed. Odds of winning $50,000 — the third highest prize Powerball offers — are 1-in-913,129.18.
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