A Missouri Lottery player won $50,000 thanks to a “Millionaire Blowout” Scratchers ticket that caught his eye at 7-Eleven, 703 Union Road, in St. Louis.
“I just walked in and bought it,” the winner explained. “It was totally random.”
The player explained he didn’t realize how much he had won initially because he scratched the ticket from the bottom up.
“I started at the bottom,” he said. “So when I uncovered the prize, that’s when I started going crazy!”
“Millionaire Blowout” is a $50 Scratchers game that offers prizes ranging from $50 to $5 million. Currently, there are over $206.1 million in unclaimed prizes in the game, including 29 more prizes of $50,000, 14 prizes of $1 million and two top prizes of $5 million.
In FY22, players in St. Louis County won more than $205.1 million in Missouri Lottery prizes, retailers received more than $19.5 million in commissions and bonuses, and more than $39 million in Lottery proceeds went to education programs in the county.
