{"id":738453,"date":"2022-01-07T01:16:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T01:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/07\/stores-last-20-lottery-ticket-brings-250000-of-christmas-luck\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T01:16:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T01:16:06","slug":"stores-last-20-lottery-ticket-brings-250000-of-christmas-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/07\/stores-last-20-lottery-ticket-brings-250000-of-christmas-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Store’s last $20 lottery ticket brings $250,000 of Christmas luck"},"content":{"rendered":"

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P.J. and Libby Vaske of Dakota Dunes, S.D., said they bought the last $20 scratch-off lottery ticket from an Iowa store and revealed a $250,000 prize when they scratched it off Christmas morning. Photo courtesy of the Iowa Lottery<\/p>\n

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Jan. 6 (UPI) —<\/span> A pair of Iowa Lottery players shopping for Christmas stocking stuffers said they bought a store’s last $20 scratch-off ticket — and won a $250,000 prize.<\/p>\n

P.J. and Libby Vaske, of Dakota Dunes, S.D., told Iowa Lottery officials they went to the Casey’s store in Sioux City, Iowa, to buy lottery tickets for their Christmas stockings.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

“We always do scratch tickets in our stockings for a little Santa gift,” Libby Vaske said. “I wanted to pick some $20 tickets to put in the stocking and that was the one that was kind of just there. I was going to buy multiple ones, but that was the only one left at that store.”<\/p>\n

The ticket, a $250,000 Extreme Cash game, revealed a $250,000 prize when it was scratched off on Christmas morning.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t believe what I was seeing,” she said. “I thought I was in a dream. I had my husband come up and look at it: ‘Is this right?!’<\/p>\n

She said her husband was equally incredulous.<\/p>\n

“We’re still pretty much in disbelief,” Libby Vaske said. “We just kind of figured, ‘Well, this doesn’t happen to people like us.'”\n<\/p>\n

The couple said their winnings will go toward home improvements and college funds for their three children.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

P.J. and Libby Vaske of Dakota Dunes, S.D., said they bought the last $20 scratch-off lottery ticket from an Iowa store and revealed a $250,000 prize when they scratched it off Christmas morning. Photo courtesy of the Iowa Lottery Jan. 6 (UPI) — A pair of Iowa Lottery players shopping for Christmas stocking stuffers said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":738454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}