A woman from Winchester beat the odds of approximately 1 in 1.3 million to win $225,000 playing Kentucky Cash Ball 225 Dec. 19.
The winner, who plays the cash ball game regularly, wishes to remain anonymous.
She checked her ticket, which she purchased at Gasoline Alley in Winchester, late that night and was shocked to find she had won.
“I kind of glanced at my ticket and saw a couple numbers match,” she said, according to a Thursday Kentucky Lottery press release. “I did a double take, and I was like, wait a minute, I have all these numbers.”
She woke her husband up to tell him about the big win and he “didn’t really know what was going on,” he told lottery officials.
“I thought she was crying,” the husband said.
After handing her husband his glasses, the ticket and her phone, which displayed the winning numbers, they both expressed shock.
The winning player signed her ticket and put it in a safety deposit box at her bank after being advised to wait until January to cash it by her tax professional.