For context, I pretty much NEVER play the lotto. I think of it as paying extra taxes voluntarily.

With that being said, I used to buy tickets when the prize is over $1 Billion. I’d hear about these on the way to work or at work if where I was working had a pool going.

I’ve been WFH for the last 5 years, so I rarely hear about the prize pool anymore.

An ad came on TV this morning for the Illinois Lotto. Some scratch off thing. It made me remember that I might have money still in the app.

So I downloaded the app, and logged in. I had $150 sitting as my balance.

I bought six $20 scratch offs and one $30.

The $30 was a bust. And the first four tickets at $20 paid nothing.

My fifth ticket paid even money, and then on my sixth and final ticket I hit the progressive.

I’m still in shock. This pays off all my debt other than my mortgage and allows me to get some long planned house improvements done as well.