A Tennessee woman from Nashville turned a routine gas stop in Perrysburg into a $500,000 Ohio Lottery win, then kept the prize quiet long enough to finish a family reunion without giving away what had just happened.
The Ohio Lottery said on June 22 that the woman bought a $10 Bingo Times 50 Scratch-Off ticket while paying for gas at S&G Store No. 100, 10730 Fremont Pike, and found the top prize as she scratched through the ticket. A bonus number completed the winning pattern and locked in the jackpot. After state and federal taxes totaling 26.75%, she will take home $366,250.
It was an ordinary travel stop in northwest Ohio, the kind that rarely leaves a mark. This one did. The game was a scratch-off, not a draw game, and the ticket was bought while she was passing through from Tennessee on the way to a family reunion. By the time the reunion ended, the secret was still hers.
That quiet stretch after the win may say as much as the prize itself. She told lottery officials she plans to do something special for her family and take a trip, but she did not say where that trip will be or what the family surprise will be. For now, the jackpot has already done its work: a roadside purchase in Perrysburg became a five-figure-after-taxes windfall, and the winner managed to hold it in for the entire gathering.
The result is simple and hard to miss. A ticket bought at a gas station on a passing trip home has left one Nashville woman with life-changing money, and the next move belongs to her.
