Lottery player upset about getting wrong ticket — until she wins life-changing prize
A Virginia lottery player was upset after receiving a different ticket than what she’d asked for — until she scratched it, lottery officials said.
The numbers on Kelly Lindsay’s wrong ticket revealed a life-changing win of $2 million, the Virginia Lottery said in a Feb. 18 news release.
“I got over not being happy about it!” Lindsay told lottery officials.
Lindsay said she intended to play her favorite lottery scratch-off game that day but ended up winning a top prize off the Money Blitz game she was given by accident.
She bought her ticket at a gas station in Carrollton, about a 20-mile drive northwest from Norfolk, the lottery said.
Two out of three top prizes have been won since October 2022, when the game started, lottery officials said.
The odds of winning a top prize are 1 in 1,142,400, and the odds of winning any prize in the game are 1 in 3.29.
Tickets cost $20 each and prizes range from $20 to the $2 million top prize, the lottery said.
