Thanks to a recent $200,000 “Big Money” Scratch win, a Kent man is celebrating his way to a new home.<\/p>\n
The man, who has asked to remain anonymous, purchased the winning Scratch ticket from a Shell gas station, 23953 104th Ave. SE, Kent.<\/p>\n
“When I first realized I won, I was on a call for work so it didn’t really sink in until later,” the winner said. “After scratching, I had to look at the numbers a couple times before it clicked that I had just won $200,000.”<\/p>\n
The first person he called was his older brother, who thought he was just trying to play a practical joke. The winner also told Washington’s Lottery officials that this is not his first time playing the lottery, but it is his first time winning big.<\/p>\n
The winner plans to use the money to rent a newer home. After that, the winner will pay bills and invest in one of his all-time favorite cars, a black or red Corvette.<\/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, visit walottery.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thanks to a recent $200,000 “Big Money” Scratch win, a Kent man is celebrating his way to a new home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":34707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-34706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34706"}],"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=34706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34706"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=34706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}