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In a stroke of kismet – or some might say luck – the winning ticket for a $15.1 state lottery was sold in the appropriately named town of Luck, Wisconsin.
The winning Megabucks lottery ticket for the Jan. 4 drawing was sold at Wayne's Food Plus, and is the largest winning lottery ticket ever sold by the store, as People.com reported.
Luck is a tiny town of approximately 1,100 residents.
"Thursday morning, when I come in and run my morning reports and ‘get your lottery’ report — it shows, 'Congrats to Wayne's foods in Luck, Wi, for selling a 15-million-dollar megabucks ticket,'" store manager Paul Wondra told CBS Minnesota.
Megabucks is a Wisconsin-only lottery game, according to the Wisconsin Lottery's website.
A person uses a coin to check out a scratch ticket, above. A winning jackpot lottery ticket was reportedly sold in the town of Luck, Wisconsin. (iStock)
A man named Mark Cunningham claimed the $15.1 million prize on Monday, Jan. 9, according to a Jan. 11 press release from the Wisconsin Lottery.
"Dreams really do come true," said Cunningham in the release.
He was described as a "regular player" of the state's lottery.
Cunningham actually purchased two winning tickets for the Jan. 4 drawing notes the release.
The jackpot of $15.1 million is the largest Megabucks jackpot since a $22.2 million jackpot in 2015.
In addition to the $15.1 million jackpot, he also won $2 on another ticket.
More than 14,162 people won at least $2 in the January 4 Megabucks drawing, said the press release.
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The jackpot of $15.1 million is the largest Megabucks jackpot since a $22.2 million jackpot in 2015, said the Wisconsin Lottery.
For selling the winning ticket, Wayne's Foods Plus received $100,000 as part of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Retailer Performance Program Winning Ticket Incentive," the Wisconsin Lottery also noted.
The Wisconsin Lottery has paid out over $9.7 billion in prizes since 1988, according to its website. (iStock)
The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 6,991,908, said the Wisconsin Lottery.
The odds of winning $2, however, are only 1 in 29.
The Wisconsin Lottery has paid out over $9.7 billion in prizes since 1988, said the website.
This is not the only recent fortunate coincidence related to the lottery.
In November, a woman in North Carolina won a lottery the same day she gave birth to a baby girl, Fox News Digital previously reported.
Brenda Gomez Hernandez, 28, of Concord, North Carolina, won $100,000 from a Powerball ticket she played through the North Carolina Education Lottery, according to a press release issued on Thursday, Dec. 1.
Brenda Gomez Hernandez, 28, won a Powerball drawing through the North Carolina Education Lottery on Nov. 9, 2022 — the same day she gave birth to her daughter. (North Carolina Education Lottery)
Hernandez gave birth on Nov. 9 — and later in the evening she won $50,000 from the Powerball drawing.
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Her prize doubled to $100,000 when a "2X Power Play multiplier hit" after she "matched numbers on four white balls and the Powerball," according to the North Carolina Education Lottery.
"When I found out I cried," Hernandez told the North Carolina Education Lottery. "I’m just so excited and happy."
Hernandez said she thinks her newborn daughter brought her luck.
Hernandez, a mother of three, picked her winning numbers based on the birthdays of her two sons, she said.
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Her winning lottery ticket was a $3 Quick Pick ticket, which was purchased from the QuikTrip location on Warren C. Coleman Boulevard in Concord.
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Hernandez told the North Carolina Education Lottery that she thinks her newborn daughter brought her luck.
Fox News Digital's Cortney Moore contributed reporting.
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