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07-05-2024
BOSTON: A lucky lottery winner has hit not only one $1 million grand prize, but two in less than three months.
Christine Wilson of Attleborough, Massachusetts, learned of her first win back in February.
On Feb. 23, Wilson claimed her $1 million grand prize after playing the “Lifetime Millions” $50 instant ticket game, the Massachusetts Lottery reported in a press release issued on May 1.
This time around, Wilson won big again after she played the “100X Cash” $10 instant ticket game.
Wilson chose to receive both her million dollar prizes as a one-time payment, which resulted in a $650,000 cash prize before taxes, lottery officials wrote in the new release.
Her first million-dollar winnings went towards a new SUV. As for her latest win, Wilson reportedly plans to deposit the funds into her savings.
The “100X Cash” winning ticket was purchased from the Family Food Mart located at 660 East St. in Mansfield, the Massachusetts Lottery reported.
The retail location will receive a $10,000 bonus because of its sale of the grand prize ticket.
After Wilson’s first big win, Dubs’s Discount Liquors, located at 30 Chauncy St. in Mansfield, received an extra bonus of $10,000 for selling her the top ticket.
Wilson’s most recent win with the “100X Cash” instant game has a total of 10 $1 million dollar prizes available and since her lucky draw, there are only three remaining.
The Massachusetts Lottery has generated over $149 billion in revenue since it was founded in 1972, the lottery’s website stated.
Since selling its first ticket, the 52-year-old lottery has “awarded over $105 billion in prizes (and) returned over $32 billion in net profit to the Commonwealth for unrestricted local aid provided to cities and towns,” the website continued.
Wilson purchased a $10 100X Cash ticket at a Family Food Mart in Mansfield. The convenience store received $10,000 after she won the lucky ticket but this wasn’t the Attleborough resident’s first trip to the Massachusetts Lottery Headquarters.
On Feb. 23, Wilson was the first $1 million prize winner on the $50 Lifetime Millions instant ticket game, the lottery said.
Lifetime Millions was launched on Feb. 6 and gives its players the chance to win $1 million a year for life. Wilson chose the one-time payment cash option of $650,000, the lottery said.
Wilson purchased this ticket at Dubs’s Discount Liquors in Mansfield and the package store receive a $10,000 bonus.
After her first win, Wilson told Massachusetts Lottery officials that she planned to purchase a new SUV with some of her winnings.
This time around, Wilson said she will put her winnings into her savings. The two-time winner did purchase her SUV, the lottery said.
The odds of winning the first top prize of $4 million are 1 in 5,376,000 and the second top prize of $1 million are 1 in 1,612,800, the Massachusetts Lottery said.
The overall odds are 1 in 3.47, the lottery said.
The odds of winning the top prize of $1 million the Lifetime Millions are 1 in 8,400,000, the Massachusetts Lottery said.
The overall odds are 1 in 4.10, the lottery said.
In order to purchase a ticket, you’ll have to visit your local convenience store, gas station or grocery store and in a handful of states, you can get tickets online. (Int’l News Desk)
