Wife interrupts husband’s shower to show off MO lottery win. ‘This isn’t real’

Many lottery players need to scratch off the entirety of their lottery ticket to reveal their big win, but a bowler from Missouri made quick work with her recent prize.

The woman, who purchased a $5,000,000 Fortune ticket at Hamilton Bowl in Hamilton, scratched off just one number to find out she won one of the game’s top prizes.

Missouri Lottery officials said the woman found some past winning tickets while packing up her bowling gear, so she used them to splurge on the $50 game.

She went home and began scratching off her ticket, but she didn’t get far.

“The very first number I scratched was 63 and right under that was $50,000!” the winner told lottery officials.

Instead of waiting for her husband to finish his shower, she did what most spouses would do and wasted no time to show off her big win.

“I burst in there and I was like I won $50,000!” she said. “And he was like, ‘No way!’”

Her ticket was one of 40 $50,000 prizes the game offers. There are also three $1 million tickets, as well as three grand prizes of $5 million.

The winner’s husband may have had difficulty believing her win, but even she was skeptical.

“All night long I’m thinking that this isn’t real,” she said. “It wasn’t until I took it back to the bowling alley the next day and scanned it that I thought, ‘This is real.’”

Hamilton is about a 65-mile drive northeast from Kansas City.

This story was originally published June 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM with the headline "Wife interrupts husband’s shower to show off MO lottery win. ‘This isn’t real’."