A lucky woman from Alberta wins a big jackpot from a $100 ticket
By Gaurav Bisht | Published June 28, 2022 08:03 am GMTA woman in Alberta hit the jackpot this month, winning a cool $1 million thanks to a $100 scratch lottery ticket she bought killing time between doing laundry.
Looking to kill time between laundry loads, Juanita Melenko headed to the nearby Vegreville Co-Op Gas Bar at 4906 – 51st Avenue and had her interest piqued by the new ULTIMATE instant tickets on sale, Melenko recalled in a Western Canada Lottery Corporation (WCLC) media release.
She picked up two to add a little excitement to laundry day and when Melenko scratched her tickets, she couldn’t believe her eyes; one of her numbers matched the winning number, scoring her a wicked $1,000,000.
The ULTIMATE ticket is the first ticket at a $100 price point ever released in the Western Canada lottery region.
It launched on May 30 and allows players the best chance to become a millionaire in any game offered by WCLC, with odds of 1 in 100,000.