“It must’ve been for me!” a Missouri Lottery player in St. Louis laughed after winning a $1.3 million Lotto jackpot.

"I looked at it, and I was shocked,” he recalled of the moment he realized he held the winning ticket. “I actually had to get up and then I said, 'Oh, my God!'”

My wife was at church, so I got up and said, 'Let me go to church,’” he shared.  “When I told her, she thought something was wrong, I said, ‘Well, we’ve got a little bit of retirement money!’”

His winning ticket, purchased at QuikTrip, 2791 Dunn Road in St. Louis, matched all six Lotto numbers drawn on Aug. 26 to win the $1.3 million jackpot:  3, 9, 10, 20, 34 and 41. He claimed his prize at the Lottery’s St. Louis regional office on <date>.

Lotto is an in-state Draw Game, with drawings held every Wednesday and Saturday evening at 8:59 p.m. Saturday’s Lotto jackpot is estimated at $3.9 million.

In FY23, players who purchased tickets in St. Louis County won more than $207.7 million in total Missouri Lottery prizes. Lottery retailers in the county received more than $20 million in commissions and bonuses, and education programs in the county received more than $76 million in appropriated Lottery proceeds.