A quick stop for a soda and a bag of ice turned into a surreal moment for a Lincoln County Missouri Lottery player when she purchased a “$5,000,000 Fortune” Scratchers ticket at Casey’s, 1891 E. Highway 47, in Winfield.
“I took the ticket home and started to scratch it,” the winner explained, noting that more and more of her numbers were matching the winning numbers on her ticket.
“Did someone give me a fake ticket? Am I dreaming?” she laughed. “I had to stop half-way through to look it over. It took me a long time to finish scratching it. I kept thinking, ‘This can’t be real!’”
Her $50,000 win was still sinking in as she claimed her prize at the Lottery’s St. Louis office on Sept. 30.
“It’s just surreal! It really couldn’t have come at a better time,” she added.
“$5,000,000 Fortune” is a $50 Scratchers game that features prizes starting at $75. More than $43.9 million in prizes have been claimed in the game so far, with over $208.6 million in unclaimed prizes remaining – including two top prizes of $5 million, three $1 million prizes and 34 additional $50,000 prizes.
In FY24, players in Lincoln County won more than $8.8 million in Missouri Lottery prizes, retailers received more than $900,000 in commissions and bonuses, and more than $1.3 million in Lottery proceeds went to education programs in the county.
