NEWMAN LAKE, Wash. — A Newman Lake retiree discovered she won $472,500 in the Washington State Lottery’s Hit 5 game while checking her ticket over morning coffee Wednesday.
D.M., who asked to remain partially anonymous, matched all five numbers in the September 23 drawing when the jackpot reached $945,000. She split the prize with another winner.
“I went flying upstairs and told my better half, ‘I think I just won some money,'” she said.
The winner buys a Hit 5 ticket weekly at Yoke’s Fresh Market in Liberty Lake and checks her numbers the next morning against the newspaper.
“I’ve matched four numbers before and won $150, but nothing like this,” D.M. said. “Some of the really big games just seem to take forever and so I looked at the big prize amounts with Hit 5 and I said to myself, ‘I’d be happy with that’…and now I am!”
She plans to use her winnings for a bathroom remodel and travel to visit out-of-state family. The remainder will go into savings.
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