Louisa gas station sells winning scratch-off ticket

By Lilly Adkins

BSN Associate Editor

LOUISA —The Kentucky Lottery issued a release announcing that a Flatwoods man, who wishes to remain anonymous, won $55,555 Aug. 27 on a Kentucky Lottery scratch-off ticket.

Exxon Market Place in Louisa will receive a 10 percent, $555.55 bonus for selling the winning ticket.

The man and his wife apparently, after making a wrong turn, decided to stop at Exxon Market Place in Louisa, where he wanted to buy two $5 scratch-off tickets, the release said. Instead of giving him the tickets he wanted, the clerk accidentally gave him two of the Funky 5’s tickets that were located next to the one’s he had originally asked for, but the couple decided to keep them.

As he was scratching off one of the tickets, he revealed a 5X symbol, which indicates player win five times the prize shown, the release said.

“I kept scratching off more five times symbols and figured they were going to be five dollars,” he said in the release. “Then I scratched off the first prize and it was for $1000. I said to my wife, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me.’”

By the time he was finished playing the ticket, his winnings totaled the game’s top prize of $55,555, the release said.

The man’s wife was grateful that the clerk had accidentally picked those tickets and said in the release “Everything just fell into place that day.”

The Greenup County man and his wife drove to lottery headquarters the following Monday, the release said where he received a check for $39,444.05 after taxes.

The release added that he told lottery officials the first thing he plans to buy with his winnings is a new golf cart.