A lottery winner claiming his prize bought another ticket in the lobby of the lottery headquarters and won again.
Chi Chan of Medford arrived at the Massachusetts State Lottery headquarters in Braintree on Wednesday to cash his winning $1,000 scratch-off ticket, CBS Boston reported. While there, he bought a $30 ticket from a vending machine in the building. RELATED:Not his lucky day: Man falls in hole on way to buy Powerball ticket Tickets for that $30 game, “Ultimate Millions,” had just gone on sale the previous day, WCVB stated. When he scratched his new ticket, he saw that he had won $1 million, CBS Boston added. He returned to the Braintree headquarters to collect his new winnings.
Congratulations to Chi Chan of Medford, the first $1 million prize winner in our new $30 #UltimateMillions game! pic.twitter.com/bICx1zfp3N
— Mass. State Lottery (@MAStateLottery) April 28, 2016
Officials said Chan chose a one-time $650,000 cash payment to receive the money from his second winning ticket, according to WCVB.
