Grocery shopper buys lottery ticket and thinks he won $1,000. It’s actually much more
While Manuel Lopez was on a grocery run at a California store, he decided to pick up a lottery ticket, too.
At first, when Lopez scratched his $10 Ice Cool ticket, which he bought at a Manteca Save Mart, he thought he had won $1,000, California Lottery officials said in an April 4 news release.
“Then I realized it was a lot more than that,” Lopez told lottery officials.
He won $1 million, the game’s top prize, according to lottery officials.
“I got excited, a little shaking but nothing crazy,” Lopez said. “It felt really good.”
Lopez was among four others in the state who also recently won six-figure prizes playing scratch-off games, lottery officials said.
Joan Hsia won $1 million from a Millionaire Maker ticket she bought in Northridge, while Tonya Powell also won $1 million playing an Xtreme Multiplier game from a Ridgecrest grocery store.
In Los Angeles, lottery officials said “Nina Smith won $1.2 million playing Decades of Dollars.”
Lastly, officials said Thuy Ho won $2 million playing an Instant Prize Crossword game on a ticket he picked up at a San Jose liquor store.
Manteca is about a 60-mile drive south from Sacramento.
This story was originally published April 9, 2024 at 1:55 PM with the headline "Grocery shopper buys lottery ticket and thinks he won $1,000. It’s actually much more."
