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‘You’re pulling my leg’: Bowling Green woman wins $2M Powerball ticket

Turns out her ticket matched the five numbers for the game’s second price which pays $1 million. However, her husband spent another dollar on the Power Play feature.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Bowling Green woman who wants to remain anonymous claimed an October Kentucky Lottery Powerball ticket worth $2 million.

According to a Kentucky Lottery press release, her husband purchased tickets for the Oct. 17 Powerball drawing at a Speedway on Nashville Road when the jackpot was worth $480 million.

He said he was buying the tickets for family and planned to give them out when he got home.

Turns out her ticket matched the five numbers for the game’s second prize which pays $1 million. However, her husband spent another dollar on the Power Play feature and doubled the prize.

When he told his wife that she had won $2 million after going to the store and checking the tickets himself, she couldn’t believe it.

“You’re pulling my leg,” she said.

But he wasn’t.

“You did, I scanned it three times to make sure,” he said.

The day before the couple claimed the ticket, they stopped at the store so she could see the message herself, the release said.

They drove to lottery headquarters where she received a check for $1,420,000 after taxes. They said they were planning on investing the winnings and already had an appointment with a financial planner.

Kentucky Lottery said the Speedway will receive a $20,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.

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