Powerball player excited by wife’s $100 win, then checks his ticket. ‘Lot of screaming’

A husband was thrilled when his wife won $100 on a scratch-off lottery ticket — then he won a life-changing prize in a Powerball drawing in Virginia.

Charles Guzek narrowly missed the jackpot, but he still hit a $1 million prize.

“There was a lot of screaming and yelling,” he told lottery officials.

The Loudoun County engineer bought his Powerball ticket during a trip to the grocery store and had a computer randomly generate his numbers, according to a Jan. 8 news release from the Virginia Lottery.

He matched the numbers on the five white balls but missed the red Powerball number in the Nov. 25 drawing. He was the only person in the country to win $1 million that night, with the next highest winners claiming a $100,000 third-tier prize, results show.

“It’s surreal,” Guzek told lottery officials when claiming his windfall.

Loudoun County is about a 50-mile drive northwest from Washington, D.C.

What to know about Powerball

To score the jackpot in the Powerball, a player must match all five white balls and the red Powerball.

The odds of scoring the jackpot prize are 1 in 292,201,338.

Tickets can be bought on the day of the drawing, but sales times and price vary by state.

Drawings are broadcast Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays at 10:59 p.m. ET and can be streamed online.

Powerball is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.