70-year-old Delaware woman claims $100,000 lottery prize — then wins $300,000 more on her way home
CBSN
As people anxiously await to see who will take home the record-breaking $1.9 billion Powerball prize, one lucky person in Delaware had a major win from scratch-offs. Delaware Lottery officials announced that a 70-year-old woman got the prize of a lifetime last month after she won $100,000 from scratch-off tickets — and then after buying more to celebrate, won another $300,000.
The woman, who lives in Newark but wished to remain anonymous according to lottery officials, won her first prize of $100,000 from two Ultimate Cash tickets she purchased at a Speedy Gas station. A week later on October 20, she and her best friend went to the lottery headquarters to claim her prize – the most she's won in the seven years she's been playing the state lottery.
On their way home, she purchased three more tickets, this time of the Serious Money game. From those tickets, she got a surprise bonus – another $300,000.
