‘My husband never cries,’ Missouri wife says. Then he saw his winning lottery ticket
Months away from his retirement, a Missouri man got emotional with a jackpot lottery win.
The win, the Springfield man and his wife told Missouri Lottery officials, will allow the couple to take a vacation together for the first time.
He usually chooses his own lottery numbers, but he said he used the Quick Pick option Aug. 22 while purchasing a Show Me Cash ticket at a Walmart in Springfield. Choosing the Quick Pick option gives players randomly generated numbers.
When the man checked his numbers after the drawing that night, he realized his ticket matched all five numbers drawn — 10, 23, 24, 27 and 31.
He had won the jackpot prize of $112,000.
“My husband never cries, and he got choked up,” the player’s wife told Missouri Lottery officials.
He said he wants to use some of his winnings to travel with his wife.
“I’ve gone on vacations, he’s gone on vacations, but the two of us have never gone on vacation ourselves together,” the wife said.
Show Me Cash costs $1 per play. The jackpot starts at $50,000 and grows until someone wins.
The jackpot for Show Me Cash is $85,000 for the Aug. 30 drawing.
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