{"id":206534,"date":"2025-02-20T22:35:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T22:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoplebugs.com\/life-style\/woman-wins-2-million-lottery-prize-after-being-given-the-wrong-scratcher-game\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T00:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T00:16:50","slug":"woman-wins-2-million-lottery-prize-after-being-given-the-wrong-scratcher-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoplebugs.com\/life-style\/woman-wins-2-million-lottery-prize-after-being-given-the-wrong-scratcher-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman wins $2 million lottery prize after being given the wrong scratcher game"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kelly Lindsay wasn\u2019t happy when the clerk at the Race Way gas station in Carrollton, Virginia<\/a> handed her the wrong scratcher.<\/p>\n She\u2019d been given a Money Blitz card, which wasn\u2019t what she ordered.<\/p>\n She decided to give it a go anyway and discovered she\u2019d just won the game\u2019s $2 million top prize.<\/p>\n \u201cI got over not being happy about it,\u201d she told the lottery<\/a> officials. She had the choice of taking the full $2 million prize in annual payments over 30 years or a one-time cash option of $1,250,000.<\/p>\n She chose the latter.<\/p>\n The odds of winning the top prize in Virginia<\/a>\u2019s Money Blitz game is one in 1,142,400, according to the state\u2019s official lottery website. <\/p>\n This is the second top prize claimed in Money Blitz, which means one more top prize is unclaimed.<\/p>\n All Virginia Lottery profits go to K-12 education in Virginia. <\/p>\n While Lindsay made sure to redeem her earnings almost immediately, other winners haven\u2019t been as forthcoming.<\/p>\n The anonymous victor of the fifth-largest Mega Millions jackpot waited nine months<\/a> before they submitted their $1.128 billion ticket to begin the collection process.<\/p>\n According to NBC New York<\/em>, the winner had purchased their ticket at a ShopRite in Neptune, New Jersey, back in March 2024. The card\u2019s matching numbers were: 7, 11, 22, 29, 38, and Gold Mega Ball 4. <\/p>\n The jackpot also included a two-time multiplier to the original prize amount. <\/p>\n This was the largest lottery prize in the history of New Jersey and the ninth largest in the U.S. Per New Jersey law, the victor had exactly a year from the date of the drawing to redeem the prize money. <\/p>\n<\/div>