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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSo we entered our scratch game ticket in a second chance winter lotto drawing
They called us an hour ago. We won $1,000 as an alternate prize.
The primary winner didn't save their ticket like they were supposed to do.
OS
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So we entered our scratch game ticket in a second chance winter lotto drawing (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Nov 2021
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Coventina
(29,732 posts)1. Congrats!! That's awesome!!
Happy Holidays!!!
CentralMass
(16,971 posts)2. Sweet. Congratulations Steve.
MontanaMama
(24,722 posts)3. Woohoo!
I'm happy for you!
Best_man23
(5,268 posts)4. Congrats
The holidays just got a whole lot happier in Omaha Steve's home.
happybird
(5,393 posts)5. Congrats!
Thats great!
malaise
(296,118 posts)6. Nice
Congrats
multigraincracker
(37,651 posts)7. Any way I can borrow five bucks until Thursday?
Nice score.
liberalla
(11,089 posts)8. Nice! An unexpected windfall! Enjoy yourselves!
rurallib
(64,688 posts)10. That can make a fellow Merry at Christmas
gademocrat7
(11,940 posts)11. Congratulations OS!
niyad
(132,441 posts)12. How lovely! Very Happy Holidays to you and yours.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,605 posts)13. As a stalwart DUer organizing fundraising efforts...
you deserve this luck! You should treat yourself, or family, to something special.
wryter2000
(47,940 posts)14. Wonderful
Enjoy.
catrose
(5,365 posts)15. It's a Hanukkah miracle! Enjoy!
Ptah
(34,122 posts)16. That's four pair of jeans!
Stuart G
(38,726 posts)17. Congratulations...!!!..HAPPY FOR YOU !!!!
JudyM
(29,785 posts)18. Sooo... apparently karma is actually a thing.
(Slap on the back) Way to go!
druidity33
(6,915 posts)19. Do you often do that?
Either buy scratch tickets (no knock on you, i do too) or enter the 2nd chance drawing? I've never tried second chancing it...
Omaha Steve
(109,230 posts)20. We started buying scratch tickets
After a relative hit $35,000 on a $3 ticket.
druidity33
(6,915 posts)22. I buy one every 2 weeks...
I get paid bi-weekly and i usually buy a $5 ticket on payday. Never hit more than $100...
IcyPeas
(25,475 posts)21. Sweet!
MustLoveBeagles
(16,409 posts)23. Congratulations
FakeNoose
(41,634 posts)24. That's another thing to be thankful for

Congratulations Omaha Steve!
piddyprints
(15,107 posts)25. OK, dinner's on you.
Where should we meet?
Congrats!
calimary
(90,021 posts)26. YAY!!!!!
An early Christmas present!
Congrats!
a kennedy
(35,993 posts)27. Congrats......
XXX XXXXX of Dakota, Minn., claimed the $932,716 Gopher 5 jackpot that he won in the Dec. 19, 2018, drawing. Dakota resident claims $900,000 Minnesota Lottery prize |