{"id":747088,"date":"2022-01-13T00:54:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T00:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/13\/ontario-man-wins-a-second-lottery-jackpot-with-scratch-off-from-same-store\/"},"modified":"2022-01-13T00:54:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T00:54:52","slug":"ontario-man-wins-a-second-lottery-jackpot-with-scratch-off-from-same-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/13\/ontario-man-wins-a-second-lottery-jackpot-with-scratch-off-from-same-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario man wins a second lottery jackpot with scratch-off from same store"},"content":{"rendered":"

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James Courtemanche of Sudbury, Ontario, won two lottery jackpots in five months with scratch-off tickets purchased from the same store. Photo courtesy of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.<\/p>\n

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Jan. 12 (UPI) —<\/span> A Canadian man collected a $71,000 prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket just five months after winning an $80,000 jackpot from a ticket bought from the same store.<\/p>\n

James Courtemanche, 43, of Sudbury, Ontario, told Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. officials he bought an Instant Wild 8 ticket from Minnow Lake Kwik Way in Sudbury and took it home to scratch it off.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

Courtemanche said he wasn’t sure if the ticket was a winner until he scanned it with the OLG app, revealing a prize of $71,102.40.<\/p>\n

The winner previously visited lottery headquarters five months earlier to collect an $80,000 jackpot from an Instant Money Match ticket he bought from the same store.<\/p>\n

“I couldn’t believe it happened again! I was so surprised — and then I remembered good things happen in 3’s, so I’m ready for my next one,” Courtemanche told OLG officials.<\/p>\n

The winner said he does not have any immediate plans for his prize money.<\/p>\n

“With the current pandemic, it’s not a good time to make plans. I’m still waiting to book a trip from my first winnings,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Courtemanche of Sudbury, Ontario, won two lottery jackpots in five months with scratch-off tickets purchased from the same store. Photo courtesy of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. Jan. 12 (UPI) — A Canadian man collected a $71,000 prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket just five months after winning an $80,000 jackpot from a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":747089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747088","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\/747088","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=747088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}