‘Give me all of them.’ Man buys store’s last tickets for lottery game — and wins big
A weekly Arkansas lottery player likes to stick to his routine.
The man from Dermott plays one game until new tickets arrive, the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery said in a March 10 news release. When he arrived at a convenience store in Monticello, he eyed his current game, the $50,000 Frenzy.
There were only three tickets left in the bin, so the player decided to clean the store out.
“Give me all of them,” he told the clerk, according to Arkansas lottery officials.
Though he quickly cleaned the store out of the $20 Frenzy tickets, the “self-described ‘patient person’” said he waited to scratch his tickets.
He cleaned the house and brewed a pot of coffee, then finally scratched his tickets to reveal a $50,000 prize.
The lucky player was excited about the win, but it didn’t immediately sink in.
“I looked at it for about two days because it just wasn’t registering,” he told lottery officials.
He plans to use his winnings to pay bills.
Dermott is about a 115-mile drive southeast from Little Rock.
This story was originally published March 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM with the headline "‘Give me all of them.’ Man buys store’s last tickets for lottery game — and wins big."
