Woman buys lottery ticket while running errands, wins jackpot. ‘Don’t believe it’
A woman in Arkansas was out running errands when she bought a lottery ticket and won a prize.
The woman was running errands when she stopped to buy a drink, according to a July 24 news release from the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery.
Once she was inside the North Little Rock store, she decided to buy a new lottery ticket, the release said.
As a daily lottery player, she noticed the $50,000 Frenzy ticket was the only one she hadn’t tried yet.
She bought the $20 ticket and went to her car to scratch it, then she remembered she forgot to buy the drink, lottery officials said. She started to go back to the store but realized she won the game’s top prize.
“No way, no way, no way,” she thought, according to lottery officials. “I must’ve done something wrong!”
The woman won $50,000 on the new game.
“You’re sitting there scratching, thinking maybe it’ll be $500 or $1,000,” she told lottery officials. “I never, ever thought of $50,000.”
She sent her husband a photo of the ticket, and he was left in disbelief.
“Are you sure you scratched that right?” he asked her, lottery officials said.
When the winner went to claim her prize, she was still in shock.
“I still don’t believe it,” she said. “This is the first time I’ve ever won this much.”
The $50,000 Frenzy game still has 36 top prizes of $50,000 left.
This story was originally published July 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM with the headline "Woman buys lottery ticket while running errands, wins jackpot. ‘Don’t believe it’."
