A woman from St. Louis County, Missouri, discovered a forgotten lottery ticket between her car seats that turned out to be worth $111,000. According to Missouri Lottery officials, the ticket was for the Show Me Cash game and had been left in her car since the August 20 drawing.
After finding the ticket about a month later, she took it to a store to check if it was a winner. “The clerk tells me I won $111,000!” she told lottery officials. “I told him to stop playing!”
The win was confirmed when all five numbers on her ticket—2, 7, 15, 31 and 36—matched those drawn on August 20. The odds of winning the Show Me Cash jackpot are one in 575,757.
“That was a shock. I hardly ever play, except around the holidays,” she said. “But I just decided that I would that day.”
Show Me Cash is a daily lottery game with tickets costing $1 each. As of September 23, the current jackpot stands at $61,000 and increases until someone wins.
