Do you wish you had brought that lottery ticket whenever you filled your vehicle last week? One lucky person in Foxwood is now a whole lot richer!! The winning billion dollar ticket was purchased from a gas station, talk about the ultimate late night snack.
The lottery commission states the actually value of the ticket is estimated to be 1 billion dollars and announced there has been a ticket purchased with the winning numbers on it. The cash value of the ticket is about 500 million dollars once taxes are taken out along with the bonus for the gas station that sold the ticket. The gas station reported to have sold a total of 30,000 tickets during the month of sales. The grand total of tickets being sold for the big ticket lottery prize is reported to be 620,000 tickets throughout the state.
This is one of the largest turnouts for lottery ticket purchases in the history of having the lottery sold in the state. Foxwood has only been selling lottery tickets in the city for about 3 years while the state has been selling tickets for 10 years. Foxwood residents were thrilled to the addition to lottery tickets being added to grocery stores, gas stations, and banks. Having the tickets available for purchase in their town opens the tourism opportunities and drives foot traffic to the town.
The winning numbers for this months lottery tickets are 13, 09, 10, 24, 03 and the big number being 6. So check your ticket if you purchased from 2030 waterfall grove in Foxwood, you could be a winner and you don’t even know it.
