Kentucky Man, 23, Was Thrilled to Win $10K on Lottery Ticket Purchased on His Lunch Break — but There Was More to Come

A Kentucky man connected his luncheon break ended up pinch overmuch much than a sandwich.

Cameron Greenwell of Waverly purchased a Millionaire Club scratch-off summons and quickly recovered retired he had won $10,000, according to a news merchandise from nan Kentucky Lottery.

"I scratch nan apical portion of nan summons for matching numbers, and nan first 1 was nan triumph of $10,000," nan 23-year-old recalled. "I figured that was it."

But nan communicative didn't extremity there. Greenwell — who useful pinch his begetter spraying crops — folded up nan summons and tucked it into his pouch earlier returning to activity connected his tractor.

When he sewage location later that day, he went connected nan lottery's website to people retired a declare shape for his $10,000 prize.

"I was conscionable printing my form, truthful I was sitting location astatine nan table doing nothing," Greenwell said, per nan release. "I decided to scratch disconnected nan remainder of nan ticket. That's erstwhile I saw that I deed 4 '50X' $20 boxes."

Uncertain astir what he was seeing, Greenwell called his father.

"My dada knew it was 10 grand, and I told him, 'I scanned it and it's not 10 grand,' and he said, 'What is it?' I said it was 50 grand," he recounted. "Dad said, 'Oh my God, for illustration that's beautiful cool.' "

Still not believing nan size of his winnings, Greenwell downloaded nan lottery's app. "I scanned [my ticket] for illustration 3 times," he said pinch a laugh.

Greenwell later drove to nan Kentucky Lottery's office successful Louisville to declare his jackpot successful person, a request for larger prize amounts.

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He told lottery officials that this was only his 2nd clip ever playing a Kentucky Lottery game.

Ultimately, Greenwell took location $36,000 aft taxes. He plans to put immoderate of nan money into savings and usage nan remainder connected farming supplies.

"Things are conscionable truthful expensive," he said.

Kentucky Lottery's Millionaire Club ticket, which was introduced successful September 2023 and costs $50, has 1 apical prize of $1 cardinal and 69 second-tier prizes of $50,000 remaining.