College student ‘in the mood for a little fun' buys lottery tickets and wins big
This Connecticut community college student couldn't afford to regularly splurge on lottery tickets.
However, one day, he 'was in the mood for a little fun and figured he'd try his luck,' Connecticut Lottery officials said in a June 5 news release.
And it's a good thing he did, as 'his life changed' upon seeing one of his lottery prizes, officials said.
The student bought two tickets at a Ansonia convenience store: a $20 20X Cash 9th Edition scratch-off ticket and a $30 High Roller Progressive Fast Play ticket, lottery officials said.
Both of the man's tickets were winners — his scratch-off ticket won him $1,000, while the other scored him a jackpot prize of $547,414, according to lottery officials.
He beat odds of 1-in-203,703.70 to score the High Roller game's top prize.
The winner told lottery officials he will use his winnings to pay off his student loans and tuition.
'He's also now seriously considering transferring out of community college and into a four-year university, since costs are no longer a barrier,' lottery officials said.
Ansonia is about a 10-mile drive northwest from New Haven.
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