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Brant Edgington didn't know he was a winner until more than a week after the drawing, when a scanner wouldn't accept his ticket.LINCOLN, Neb. — A Nebraska man's last-minute decision to buy a lottery ticket with his lunch paid off big time.
Brant Edgington stopped in to the Baker's grocery store in Fremont, Nebraska, to pick up a salad for the next day and decided to buy a few Mega Millions tickets forWhile his family are avid lottery players, Edgington, a single father, said he only buys tickets when the jackpot gets high and wasn't expecting to buy a ticket at all that day. Thewas $977 million. He didn't check the results until the following Saturday, when he tried to use a scanner to cash them in for any winnings.
“They disappeared for a minute,” Edgington told the Nebraska Lottery. “Then a different lady came up with her and they just stared at me. She told me, ‘Don’t pass out when I tell you this.’” Brent Edgington, of Fremont, Nebraska, holding his $1 million Mega Millions check in April 2024. Mega Millions and Powerball, the two largest lottery games in the United States, have both had winners take home jackpots larger than $1 billion in the last month. A Powerball player in$1.586 billion: Powerball – Jan. 13, 2016 – CA, FL, TN$1.35 billion: Mega Millions - Jan. 13, 2023 - ME $1.13 billion: Mega Millions - March 26, 2024 - NJ
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