Man buys 7 lottery tickets after $77 Missouri win. His next prize had a few more 7s
Just how lucky is the No. 7? Just ask one particular Missouri Lottery player.
The man from Vernon County already won $77 on a Triple Red 777 ticket when he decided to purchase more tickets at a store in Nevada, Missouri.
He bought seven more tickets on that second purchase — and won big, Missouri Lottery officials said in a Tuesday, Oct. 10, news release.
This time, he was a $77,777 winner.
“I took my glasses off and rubbed my eyes because I thought I was seeing double,” he told Missouri Lottery officials.
Triple Red 777 costs $10 to play and offers a top prize of $777,777. There is one unclaimed jackpot prize and four unclaimed $77,777 tickets.
Vernon County is along the state’s border with Kansas and is about 100 miles south of Kansas City.
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