A Kent man is “Lucky for Life” after nearly throwing away a winning ticket for the popular Scratch game earlier this week. The winner, who asked to remain anonymous, purchased the winning ticket from Fred Meyer, 10201 SE 240th St., Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“I went to mail in a second-chance Seahawks Scratch ticket, when I saw an unscratched ‘Lucky for Life’ ticket sitting in a pile to throw away,” he said. “That’s when I scratched it and found out it was a winner.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The man chose to take the lump sum of $750,000 instead of the annuity payments, which pays up to $1,000 a week for life. He told Washington’s Lottery officials he plans to put the money toward purchasing a townhouse in Kent. Other than that, he plans to save the remaining money for a rainy day.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Proceeds from Washington’s Lottery benefit the Washington Opportunity Pathways Account, providing grants to college students statewide. To learn more about Washington’s Lottery, its beneficiaries and to review all up-to-date winning numbers, please visit walottery.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Kent man is “Lucky for Life” after nearly throwing away a winning ticket for the popular Scratch game earlier this week. The winner, who asked to remain anonymous, purchased the winning ticket from Fred Meyer, 10201 SE 240th St., Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-22617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22617"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}