Luck-y! Winning state lottery ticket sold in tiny town of Luck, Wisconsin

In a stroke of kismet – or, some mild say, luck – the successful ticket for a $15.1 state lottery was offered within the appropriately named city of Luck, Wisconsin.

The successful Megabucks lottery ticket for the Jan. 4 drawing was offered at Wayne’s Meals Plus, and is the biggest successful lottery ticket ever offered by the shop, as Folks.com reported.

Luck is a tiny city of roughly 1,100 residents. 

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“Thursday morning, after I are available in and run my morning reviews and ‘get your lottery’ report — it reveals, ‘Congrats to Wayne’s meals in Luck, Wi, for promoting a 15-million-dollar megabucks ticket,’” retailer supervisor Paul Wondra informed CBS Minnesota.

Megabucks is a Wisconsin-only lottery sport, in keeping with the Wisconsin Lottery’s web site. 

A person named Mark Cunningham claimed the $15.1 million prize on Monday, Jan. 9, in keeping with a Jan. 11 press launch from the Wisconsin Lottery. 

“Desires actually do come true,” mentioned Cunningham within the launch. 

He was described as a “common participant” of the state’s lottery. 

Cunningham truly bought two successful tickets for the Jan. 4 drawing notes the discharge. 

Along with the $15.1 million jackpot, he additionally gained $2 on one other ticket. 

Greater than 14,162 individuals gained not less than $2 within the January 4 Megabucks drawing, mentioned the press launch.

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The jackpot of $15.1 million is the biggest Megabucks jackpot since a $22.2 million jackpot in 2015, mentioned the Wisconsin Lottery.

For promoting the successful ticket, Wayne’s Meals Plus obtained $100,000 as a part of the Wisconsin Lottery’s “Retailer Efficiency Program Successful Ticket Incentive,” the Wisconsin Lottery additionally famous.

The Wisconsin Lottery has paid over $9.7 billion in prizes since 1988, in keeping with their web site.
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The chances of successful the jackpot are 1 in 6,991,908, mentioned the Wisconsin Lottery.

The chances of successful $2, nonetheless, are just one in 29. 

The Wisconsin Lottery has paid out over $9.7 billion in prizes since 1988, mentioned the web site.

This isn’t the one latest lucky coincidence associated to the lottery. 

In November, a girl in North Carolina gained a lottery the identical day she gave start to a child woman, Fox Information Digital beforehand reported. 

Brenda Gomez Hernandez, 28, of Harmony, North Carolina, gained $100,000 from a Powerball ticket she performed by way of the North Carolina Schooling Lottery, in keeping with a press launch issued on Thursday, Dec. 1.

Brenda Gomez Hernandez, 28, gained a Powerball drawing by way of the North Carolina Schooling Lottery on Nov. 9, 2022 — the identical day she gave start to her daughter.
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Hernandez gave start on Nov. 9 — and later within the night she gained $50,000 from the Powerball drawing.

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Her prize doubled to $100,000 when a “2X Energy Play multiplier hit” after she “matched numbers on 4 white balls and the Powerball,” in keeping with the North Carolina Schooling Lottery.

“Once I came upon I cried,” Hernandez informed the North Carolina Schooling Lottery. “I’m simply so excited and glad.”

Hernandez, a mom of three, picked her successful numbers primarily based on the birthdays of her two sons, she mentioned.

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Her successful lottery ticket was a $3 Fast Choose ticket, which was bought from the QuikTrip location on Warren C. Coleman Boulevard in Harmony.

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Hernandez informed the NC Schooling Lottery that she thinks her new child daughter introduced her luck. 

Fox Information Digital’s Cortney Moore contributed to this text.