Friends buy lottery ticket to celebrate Chiefs win — and end up with win of their own
Celebrating a Kansas City Chiefs win against the Miami Dolphins, two friends purchased a Keno ticket in Springfield, Missouri.
After scanning the ticket, the pair had another reason to celebrate. They won $77,688, according to the Missouri Lottery.
“He just stood there for a while and then he turned around and mouthed, ‘It says claim at Lottery office,’” one friend told lottery officials. “I didn’t think anything of it until he had the bartender run it.”
When the woman first looked at their winnings, she thought they had won $7,000. “I squinted, and I was like, ‘Oh my, it’s way more than that!’” she told Missouri lottery.
“I told him I was going to cry, and he was just like, “No, don’t cry! We’ve got to go put this ticket somewhere safe!’” the friends told lottery officials.
The friends purchased an 8-Spot ticket, which won them $10,000, and also played the Bulls-Eye feature, which won them another $50,000, lottery officials said. An additional jackpot prize on the 8-Spot ticket brought the final amount to $77,688, according to officials.
Players in Greene County won over $50 million in the Missouri Lottery in fiscal year 2023, officials said.
Springfield is about 160 miles southeast of Kansas City.
This story was originally published January 26, 2024 at 10:50 AM with the headline "Friends buy lottery ticket to celebrate Chiefs win — and end up with win of their own."
