Many people get a lot of the numbers right on a lottery ticket, but few come this close to the winner.
A Denver family missed the $61.9 million jackpot Wednesday, despite guessing all five numbers and even the Powerball number. It was just on the wrong line.
“Man, just one line away from the big one! said Chris Baca in a Colorado Lottery news release.
They still made out pretty well.
Because the Powerball number was somewhere on the ticket and they chose the “Power Play” option, they doubled their earnings from $200,000 to $400,000.
Baca bought the ticket from a 7-Eleven store in Aurora after grabbing some gas for his lawnmower, the release said.
The next morning, his wife, Dorothy, checked to see the results in the paper. Shortly after that, the overjoyed Bacas arrived at the Denver lottery office before the doors even opened at 8 a.m. to claim their prize.
They plan to put some money into savings and use the rest to help out family.
“We still gotta work,” said Baca, a remodeling contractor. “But maybe I’ll be a little pickier with the jobs I take.”
