Lottery Miracle: 2 Massachusetts Men Win $1 Million Game 25 Minutes Apart

Two men from Massachusetts were part of what some may call a lottery miracle after winning $1 million in prizes from the same game 25 minutes apart.

The winners arrived at the state's lottery headquarters on Jan. 26, and both individuals won from the same scratch-off game. The two men were identified as Lawrence Troy from Mansfield and Jonathan Seward from Sheffield.

Massachusetts Lottery Miracle

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Two men from Massachusetts claimed the $1 million prize from the same scratch-off game 25 minutes apart and both chose the one-time payment of $650,000 each before taxes.(not actual photo)

The two individuals are the winners of $1 million from the $5 million 100X Cashword instant game. Troy was the first one who bought his ticket at 7-Eleven in Mansfield. The store where he bought the winning ticket will also get a $10,000 bonus for selling it.

On the other hand, Seward won the lottery game at Silk's Variety, which is a liquor store in Sheffield, and the store will also be getting a $10,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket. It was also the store's first million-dollar ticket, as per USA Today.

The latter was the first person to claim his prize and he told lottery officials that he scratched his ticket while he was enjoying a glass of wine in front of a fireplace after he processed some of his bills. Roughly half an hour later, Troy claimed his prize and the two men chose to receive a one-time payment of $650,000 each before taxes.

While Troy said that he has no plans for the money that has just won, Seward, who is self-employed, already plans to invest his winnings into his business. The lottery game, which is known as a $5 million 100X Cash instant game, is a scratch-off game where each ticket costs $20 and the maximum prize is $5 million.

The chances that any single person wins any prize in the game are one in 2.86 and the probability of getting the grand prize of $5 million is one in 5,040,000. Seward and Troy won the second prize of $1 million, which has a probability of one in 1,008,000.

Winning Games

In similar news, one lottery player in Massachusetts won $100,000 on the last day of January from a ticket that was bought at a supermarket. The lottery prize was from the daily "Mass Cash" drawing on Jan. 31 and the winning numbers were 6, 14, 22, 30, and 33, according to MassLive.

In this particular game, players select five numbers between 1 and 35 and choose how many drawings they want to enter those numbers for. Every play will cost $1 and drawings take place at 9:00 p.m. every day. The players who match all five of the numbers win the prize of $100,000.

Also, a group of current and former school staffers at Rector A. Jones Middle School in Florence, Kentucky, celebrated after playing the Kentucky Powerball and winning the $1 million prize.

The winners called themselves the "Jones 30" and included Sharon Reynolds, the vice principal of the school's 7th-grade, and Michelle Cravens, a guidance counselor for the same year level, said ABC News.