Man turns $10 lotto ticket from San Diego store into $1 million

SAN DIEGO — A fortunate winner who purchased a Winter Bucks Scratchers lotto ticket from a San Diego retailer turned $10 into $1 million, California Lottery said in a press launch Thursday.

Guillermo Cuevas purchased the successful ticket at Newport Liquor on Beyer Boulevard in Otay Mesa West, in line with lottery officers. Newport Liquor will obtain a $5,000 bonus for promoting the successful ticket.

“I’ve performed California Lottery video games for the reason that very starting. I nonetheless bear in mind buying $1 tickets in 1985,” Cuevas stated. “The superb a part of this story is that I purchased the successful ticket with the prize from one other ticket I purchased earlier that day.”

Simply how robust is it to land the highest prize for Winter Bucks? CA Lottery defined that the percentages of successful the highest prize of $1 million are one in additional than two million.

Different millionaire winners additionally had been introduced in El Monte in Los Angeles County, the place a Scratchers ticket price $5 million was bought at Jalco Liquor on Durfee Avenue, lottery officers said. Jalco Liquor will obtain a $25,000 bonus for promoting that successful ticket.

And in Kings County, a winner was introduced with a Yr of Fortune Scratchers ticket price $5 million, which was bought from Harrods Market and Furnishings on East sixth Avenue in Hanford, in line with CA Lottery. That retailer additionally will get a $25,000 bonus.

Lottery officers say there are nonetheless two top-prize-winning tickets left in California.