A lucky purchase while making a quick stop for snacks resulted in a Missouri Lottery Player winning a $174,000 Show Me Cash jackpot on May 5.
“I was on my way to a ballgame,” the winner said. “I stopped for a bag of peanuts and picked up a couple of Quick Pick tickets.”
The next morning, as the winner was checking his tickets, he was surprised to see one of them was a winner. Just to be sure, he took the ticket into the kitchen for his wife to double-check.
That was when they learned the ticket he had purchased at Schnucks, 5055 Arsenal St. in St. Louis, had actually matched all five numbers to win the previous night’s jackpot prize. The winner number combination on May 5 was 7, 13, 19, 28 and 39.
Show Me Cash is drawn daily at 8:59 p.m., with jackpots that start at $50,000 and grow until won.
In FY24, players in the City of St. Louis won more than $45 million in Missouri Lottery prizes, retailers received more than $4.4 million in commissions and bonuses, and more than $36.9 million in Lottery proceeds went to education programs in the city.
