Lottery player celebrated $100 win in Missouri — until taking a closer look at ticket
A Missouri lottery player was scratching off her ticket when she thought she won a $100 prize.
But she actually had a much bigger win to celebrate.
After scratching her “$100,000 Fortune” Scratchers ticket, the woman figured out she mistook a comma for a period, according to an April 21 news release from the Missouri Lottery.
This meant she had actually won the game’s top $100,000 prize — and she realized it while talking to a friend on the phone, officials said.
“I just kept going ‘No, no way!’” the woman recalled while claiming her prize.
The winning $5 ticket was sold at Discount Smoke Shop in St. Louis.
This story was originally published April 24, 2023 at 10:23 AM with the headline "Lottery player celebrated $100 win in Missouri — until taking a closer look at ticket."