A LOTTO winner told how he scooped a prize worth $80,000 after finding a ticket tucked away in his car.
Lucas Swarthout bought a $2 scratch-off lottery ticket but seemed to forget about his purchase.
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He had bought the ticket at a Kwik Stop convenience store in North Platte, Nebraska, last fall, the Lincoln Journal Star reported.
Swarthout only found the ticket when clearing his glove box.
He scratched the numbers and ended up winning a 2023 Ford F-150 XLT truck.
Nebraska Lottery officials confirmed that Swarthout’s prize had not expired either.
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Eight trucks were up for grabs in total, with seven claimed so far, per People.
When the eighth truck is won, the player has 180 days to claim their prize, according to lotto bosses.
The prize contained $25,000 that goes toward taxes and licensing.
“That just makes it better, when you find out there’s no financial strings attached,” Swarthout said.
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Just months before Swarthout collected his truck, Dennis Odgaard was named the sixth winner, per the Norfolk Daily News.
The win came almost 20 years after Odgaard won his first pick-up truck.
'I've gone through it,' cries $1million lottery winner who lost it all in 8 years - half was gone on the very first dayHe and his wife Diane regularly play the game, buying around 10 tickets a week.
Players must defy the odds of one in 336,000 to win the prize.
The odds of winning a prize in the game are one in 3.69.
Meanwhile, lotto winners have ended up losing millions after hitting the jackpot.
Patricia Brunson, from North Carolina, took home around $4.3 million after winning the jackpot on a $50 scratch-off game.
The jackpot prize was $10 million but federal and state taxes saw the price more than halved.
