Beginner's luck: Man "started screaming" after winning $3 million, only 11 days after playing a Colorado Lottery game for first time
Call it beginner's luck, but only 11 days after playing in a Colorado Lottery game for the first time, a man purchased a Monopoly 500X Scratch ticket in Thornton and won the top prize. It's worth $3 million.
"When he scratched off his winning ticket and realized what he'd won, he said he just started screaming," Colorado Lottery wrote about the reaction by the winner -- Scott S. (who isn't revealing his last name but posed for a photo with his symbolic check).
Scott bought the winning scratch ticket at the Kum & Go at 250 East 136th Avenue.
He says he is going to use the money to "just enjoy life." He is self employed.
Scott S. of Thornton won the $3,000,000 top prize on his Monopoly 500X Scratch ticket! Scott, who is self-employed, says...
Posted by Colorado Lottery on Thursday, August 3, 2023
In the Colorado Lottery Facebook post announcing the win, someone commented: "Good job, 11 days of playing lotto scratch. Some of us have been playing for 20 plus years and nothing even close to what you won."