Kentucky Lottery launches new scratch-off game. Oldham County man playing it wins big
An Oldham County man won big, but fell shy of taking the top prize of $5 million in Kentucky Lottery’s new scratch-off game, which launched in October.
The anonymous man, a resident of Pewee Valley near Crestwood, was still thrilled with his $50,000 second-place prize and thought he was dreaming when he scratched it off. He bought the $50 ticket at the Cubert’s Qwik Stop in Shelbyville Oct. 10, the date the game launched.
“I couldn’t believe what I saw so I went back to the store and asked, ‘Can we confirm this?,’” he said, according to a Monday Kentucky Lottery news release. “It was a dream.”
The man purchased a ticket for the $5 million Fortune scratch-off game, which offers the highest scratch-off prize in Kentucky Lottery history.
According to the game’s rules, players pay $50 per ticket for a shot at the top prize of $5 million. Winners can choose to receive either $250,000 per year for 20 years or a lump sum cash payment of $3.4 million after taxes.
Other prize amounts range between $75 to $50,000, and the overall odds of winning any amount are 1 in 2.77.
With taxes withheld, the Oldham County man took home a check worth $36,000, which he said he’ll use to pay bills.
Several Kentucky Lottery players have recently won $50,000 prizes, including a woman in Eastern Kentucky and a man in Campbell County.
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