“Zeros” Were This Girl’s Best Friend
 MARCH 18, 2008 — As Cathy Johnson was heading to work on Saturday, March 15, she stopped at the Gilbert Get-N-Go at 1 Broadway St. N. in Gilbert. Johnson intended to purchase a $500,000 Spectacular scratch ticket, but settled on a Lucky Times 10 ticket instead.
The Gilbert resident scratched the ticket when she got to work 15 minutes later. When she got to game #9 on the ticket, Johnson knew that she won a prize when her number of 69 matched the lucky number of 69. “At first I thought it was $250,” Johnson recalled. “Then I kept getting more zeros.” The prize for the matching numbers was $250,000.
“I was jumping around and screaming,” Johnson said. “I called my husband — my voice was shaking so he thought something was wrong. I said, ‘No, it’s good!’”
Johnson claimed the prize at Lottery headquarters in Roseville on March 17.
Three of four $250,000 prizes remain to be claimed. The overall odds of winning a prize by playing the Lucky Times 10 scratch game are 1 in 3.33.
To win a prize playing the Lucky Times 10 scratch game, match any of “Your Numbers” to any of the “Lucky Numbers” and win the prize shown for that game. Reveal any “multiplier” symbol (2X – 10X) and automatically win the prize shown for that game times the multiplier shown for that game.
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