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Louisville woman wins $225K while stopping to get drink at Kroger

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Kentucky Lottery
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SOURCE: Kentucky Lottery
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Louisville woman wins $225K while stopping to get drink at Kroger
It's not often that you walk out of a grocery store with more money than you came in with, but that was the case for a Louisville woman recently.According to Kentucky Lottery officials, the woman stopped at the Bardstown Road Kroger on Tuesday to get a drink and bought two $10 scratch-offs.It wasn't until she got home that she scratched off her tickets, with every number on one of them being a winner.“I saw I matched my first number and assumed it was $5, but I saw $6,000 and couldn’t believe it," the woman said.She had already won $180,000, but when she turned her ticket over, she won the bonus game as well, bringing her winnings to $225,000.Lottery officials said she called her kids over, and they couldn't believe she had won either.After taxes, the woman took home a check for $160,875. Kroger will receive $2,250 for selling the winning ticket.The woman told lottery officials she plans to take a trip and pay off some bills with her winnings.

It's not often that you walk out of a grocery store with more money than you came in with, but that was the case for a Louisville woman recently.

According to Kentucky Lottery officials, the woman stopped at the Bardstown Road Kroger on Tuesday to get a drink and bought two $10 scratch-offs.

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It wasn't until she got home that she scratched off her tickets, with every number on one of them being a winner.

“I saw I matched my first number and assumed it was $5, but I saw $6,000 and couldn’t believe it," the woman said.

She had already won $180,000, but when she turned her ticket over, she won the bonus game as well, bringing her winnings to $225,000.

Lottery officials said she called her kids over, and they couldn't believe she had won either.

After taxes, the woman took home a check for $160,875. Kroger will receive $2,250 for selling the winning ticket.

The woman told lottery officials she plans to take a trip and pay off some bills with her winnings.