NEWPORT, Kentucky — One Kentucky woman is $50,000 richer after her husband bought her the wrong lottery ticket.
Last month, Tanya Hammonds asked her husband to go to the store and pick her up some scratch-off tickets. Instead of the games she had requested, officials said he purchased the tickets to the right of the ones that she wanted.
Little did she know she was in luck, because one of the tickets was a $50,000 Ca$h Scratch-off that had the game’s top prize of $50,000!
“Before I scratched the numbers, I scratched off the barcode and scanned it,” Hammonds said. “I saw $50,000 and I thought the app was malfunctioning.”
Hammonds told lottery officials she was so excited. The first thing she did was send a picture of the winning ticket and a screenshot of the app to her mom. Her family went to the Kentucky Lottery headquarters a few days later to claim the prize.
Officials said Hammonds walked away with a check for $35,750, and the Circle K on East 10th Street in Newport will receive $500 for selling the winning ticket.
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