RI Lottery Announces Two $20,000 Instant Ticket Winners in Two Week Period

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RI Lottery Announces Two $20,000 Instant Ticket Winners in Two Week Period

Beth and Joe Lampron of Rumford
The Rhode Island Lottery has announced that Beth and Joe Lampron of Rumford won $20,000 after deviating from their usual routine. Joe normally buys just PowerBall® tickets, but he started to mix things up, and asked for two $10 Instant Tickets. Then, a week later, while he was cooking dinner, he asked Beth to pick up two more $10 Instant Tickets. She went to Town Wine & Spirits, 179 Newport Ave., East Providence, and decided to instead ask for one $20 ticket.  At home, she scratched off the first ten numbers, to reveal $1,000 prizes for each number.  Joe scratched off the second half of the ticket with the same result. They told Lottery staff that as they totaled up the prizes, "We jumped up and down like Tom Brady at the end of the Superbowl!" They plan to use the money to pay bills, and then spoil their children and dogs.      

Less than two weeks after the Lampron's claimed their prize, a man from Mystic, Conn., cashed in a $20,000 winning "$1,000,000 Scratch" Instant as well.  He said he bought the ticket on a whim while at Barca's Market, LLC., 244B Ashaway Rd., Bradford.  Feeling lucky when he was waiting for his check at Lottery Headquarters, he decided to buy another "$1,000,000 Scratch" Instant Ticket out of the vending machine in the lobby and won $40.  According to the winner, he will put his winnings in his "New Car Fund." 

The "$1,000,000 Scratch" Instant game still has one $1,000,000 and 18 $20,000 prizes left to be claimed.

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Rhode Island's Biggest PowerBall Winners

8th: Antone Cordeiro

$7.7 million
Drawing date: August 10, 1994
Winner’s hometown: New Bedford, MA
Where he bought the winning ticket: Guimond Farms, Tiverton
Winning numbers: 2, 11, 20, 27, 44, PB 16

7th: Timothy Paine

$30 million
Drawing date: August 26, 1995
Winner’s hometown: Cranston, RI
Where he bought the winning ticket: Cranston Liquor Store, Cranston
Winning numbers: 3,12,30, 31, 45, PB 19

6th: Donald Pierce

$33.8 million
Drawing date: April 20, 1996
Winner’s hometown: Narragansett, RI
Where he bought the winning ticket: Geaber’s Liquors, Warwick
Winning numbers: 2, 8, 10, 29, 32, PB 40

*Pierce split jackpot with winner from Virginia

5th: Edith Scrivani

$45.5 million 
Drawing date: October 31, 1998
Winner’s hometown: Providence, RI
Where she bought the winning ticket: Brooks Maxi Drug, Johnston
Winning numbers: 17, 33, 34, 37, 42, PB 8

*split with winner from Wisconsin

4th: Kathleen Last

$60 million
Drawing date: March 7, 2012
Winner’s hometown: Smithfield, RI
Where she bought the winning ticket: Quickets, Smithfield
Winning numbers: 12, 35, 45, 46, 47, PB 12

3rd: Michael Goulden

$93.5 million
Drawing date: February 1, 2001
Winner’s hometown: Pawtucket, RI
Where he bought the ticket: Li’l General, Pawtucket
Winning numbers: 4, 10, 32, 39, 45, PB 25

2nd: Sheila Botelho

$151.9 million
Drawing date: November 28, 2007
Winner’s hometown: Swansea, MA
Where she bought the winning ticket: Warren Mart, Warren
Winning numbers: 8, 23, 32, 37, 39, PB 38

1st: Louise White

$336.4 million
Drawing date: February 11, 2012
Winner’s hometown: Newport, RI
Where she bought the winning ticket: Stop & Shop, Newport
Winning numbers: 1, 10, 37, 52, 57, PB 11

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