He forgot about the ticket until he stopped for gas in St. Charles, about a 20-mile drive northwest from St. Louis. He pulled it from his pocket at the gas station counter, scratched it and looked at the clerk in shock, he told the Missouri Lottery in a Nov. 8 news release.

An Illinois woman tucked a Lucky Day Lotto ticket into her purse and forgot about it before discovering it was a $1 million winner.

An Illinois woman is $1 million richer after winning on a lottery ticket she forgot about. During a grocery trip to the Jewel-Osco supermarket in Elmhurst in October, she made the last-minute decision to pick up a lottery ticket for the Lucky Day Lotto, a daily draw game in Illinois. The ticket was set for an evening drawing on October 20.

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ELMHURST, Ill. -- An Illinois woman put a lottery ticket in her purse and forgot about it. She ended up winning a big jackpot. She said she purchased the ticket on a whim at a Jewel-Osco grocery store in Elmhurst, Illinois. The ticket was purchased the ...

Her ticket purchase was not only unplanned, it was also forgotten, she said in an Illinois Lottery press release, requesting to remain anonymous. “While on my way to visit my aunt, I made a quick stop at Jewel to pick up a few groceries,