While at Casey’s, 114 N. Pearl St. in Milan, a “Silver & Gold” Scratchers ticket caught the eye of a Missouri Lottery player.  

“Every now and then I’ll buy a $10 or $20 ticket,” he said. “And that day I just thought, ‘What the heck. I’ll give that one a try.’”

Once he scratched it off, he was shocked to discover he had won the first of five $50,000 prizes offered in the game.

“I kept looking at it and thinking, ‘This isn’t right. This just doesn’t happen,’” he laughed. “But it was $50,000!”

He went right back into the store and asked one of the clerks to check the ticket for him to make sure he was reading it correctly.

“He showed me it,” he said. “And I could not believe it. I thought, ‘Oh my God!’”

So far, “Silver & Gold” players have won over $3.6 million in prizes playing the $10 game. Over $30.5 million remain in unclaimed prizes, including two top prizes of $1 million and four more $50,000 prizes.  

In FY22, players in Sullivan County won more than $694,000 in Missouri Lottery prizes, retailers received more than $71,000 in commissions and bonuses, and more than $94,000 in Lottery proceeds went to education programs in the county.