Motorcyclist bought Powerball tickets on detour — and nearly missed out on big prize
A motorcyclist made a detour that led to him scoring a big Powerball prize during a May 15 drawing.
The man named Jimmy from North Seattle went to a gas station in Washington where the pumps weren’t working, so he went to another one nearby, Washington’s Lottery said in a June 13 news release.
There the man, whose last name wasn’t given in the release, bought some Powerball tickets, put them in his wallet and forgot about them for nearly two weeks, the lottery office said.
When he found the tickets, he scanned them using his lottery app. One wasn’t a winner, but the other ticket told him to “See Lottery Office.”
He thought this was a glitch, so he scanned the ticket a few more times then tried to look up the numbers online.
His girlfriend read him the numbers.
“Wow, I matched a lot of numbers. What is that, like a $500 prize?” he said.
He had won $50,000 not $500.
The man told the lottery office he plans to use his prize to pay his rent for a year, upgrade his motorcycle’s stereo and buy toys and treats for his three dogs.
This story was originally published June 14, 2023 at 1:39 PM.
