BOONEVILLE, Ky. — A Booneville man (who wished to remain anonymous) won $3,000,000 after he bought a Kentucky Lottery Scratch-off ticket.
The lucky man recently stopped at Booneville Foodmart to purchase his daily Pick 3 tickets when he bought a $30 Mega Multiplier! Scratch-off.
“I don’t normally buy $30 tickets, but something told me to buy that ticket,” he said.
While sitting in his truck, he scratched the ticket off. “I got to my last two numbers and the 26 showed up,” he said.
He proceeded to scratch off the prize amount below.
“I saw the little zero and thought, ‘well that’s kind of odd.’ Then I saw another little one and another little one and figured it’s at least $1,000 and then I scratched the rest and saw that $3,000,000," he said.
“I went in shock. I looked at it and thought, I was reading this wrong,” he said. “I called my son, and I was in tears.”
He met up with his son and they downloaded the Kentucky Lottery app so he could check to make sure his ticket was a winner.
“When I saw that ($3,000,000), I was freaking out,” he said.
“It didn’t really sink in until the lady (at lottery headquarters) scanned it,” he said.
The Owsley County man chose to take the game’s lump sum cash payment of $2,281,000. After taxes, he received a check for $1,630,915.
He said he plans to pay off his house and put some of the winnings away for retirement.
Booneville Foodmart will receive $22,810 for selling the winning ticket.
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