CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio — One lucky man in Cuyahoga Falls has claimed a prize worth $50,000 from a winning scratch-off ticket in the Ohio Lottery’s $1 million Cashword game.
The winner -- identified only as Paul -- says he practically fell out of his seat after realizing he had won the money.
“I grabbed my phone and scanned it and when I saw $50,000, I about passed out,” he says.
Paul bought his winning ticket at the Mini-Mart at 2810 Bailey Road in Cuyahoga Falls, according to a press release from the Ohio Lottery. He had picked up the ticket on a Friday, but didn’t scratch it off until a couple days later when he returned home from a fishing charter.
“I was in complete shock,” he says. “Nothing has ever happened to me like this in my life.”
Paul says he may use his winnings for a down payment on a house, while possibly putting some of the money in pension/mutual funds and treating himself to a trip.
After mandatory state and federal tax totaling 28 percent, the Ohio Lottery says Paul will receive approximately $36,000.
The $1 million Cashword game is a $20 scratch-off ticket that features a top prize of $40,000 a year for 25 years ($1 million total).
The Ohio Lottery says the odds of winning any prize in the game are 1 in 3.18.
Feeling lucky? Here are a list of prizes left in the $1 million Cashword game as listed by the Ohio Lottery:
- $40,000 a year for 25 years: 2 prizes remaining
- $50,000: 3 prizes remaining
- $10,000: 5 prizes remaining
- $5,000: 9 prizes remaining
- $1,000: 60 prizes remaining
- $750: 512 prizes remaining
- $500: 3,250 prizes remaining
- $400: 5,497 prizes remaining
- $300: 9,529 prizes remaining
- $250: 10,102 prizes remaining
- $150: 15,015 prizes remaining
- $100: 20,245 prizes remaining
- $50: 44,264 prizes remaining
- $40: 40,107 prizes remaining
- $25: 240,617 prizes remaining
- $20: 245,388 prizes remaining
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