Lottery player surprises wife with winning Missouri ticket. ‘About broke my neck’
A Missouri husband surprised his wife with a winning scratch-off lottery ticket, leaving her screaming at the prize amount.
The man was driving and decided to stop and buy a “$100 Million Cash Bonanza” in Ballwin, according to a Jan. 22 news release from the Missouri Lottery.
“I usually take the tickets home to my wife and let her scratch them, but I decided to check it first before I left,” he said.
Before leaving the store, he scratched off the barcode and scanned it to see if he won anything, lottery officials said. To his surprise, he won $100,000. He decided to take it home to surprise his wife.
“So, I decided to trick my wife. I left it unscratched and left it for her,” he said. “She scratched it off and about broke my neck grabbing my neck and screaming so hard.”
The $20 game has seven more $100,000 prizes and two top prizes of $4 million that have not been claimed, officials said.
Ballwin is about 20 miles west of St. Louis.
This story was originally published January 23, 2024 at 12:50 PM with the headline "Lottery player surprises wife with winning Missouri ticket. ‘About broke my neck’."
