Douglas Tyler of Oxford stopped by The Lucky Den, bought a Lucky Clover ticket, and got lucky with a $119,186 jackpot win.
“We’ve never won anything like this before so I was very excited,” he said.
Tyler, 65, said his wife initially overlooked the win when she checked the ticket.
“I guess she just missed the winning number,” he said.
The next morning, Tyler said his wife “started yelling” but he had no idea why.
“I thought she saw a mouse or something,” he laughed.
Tyler said he and his wife scan all of their tickets and, when his wife scanned their Fast Play ticket on Saturday, she realized they won the jackpot.
Tyler bought his $2 Lucky Clover ticket on Friday afternoon from The Lucky Den on North Durham Avenue in Creedmoor. He arrived Wednesday to collect his prize and, after required state and federal tax withholdings, took home $84,921.
He said he will use his winnings to do some home repairs and put the rest in savings.
The Fast Play rolling jackpot grows with every ticket purchased. When Tyler made his purchase, it had just reached $595,930. Because he bought a $2 ticket, he won 20 percent of the jackpot.
On Thursday morning, the Fast Play jackpot was $411,000 and growing. The odds of winning a Fast Play jackpot are 1 in 320,000.
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