Winning Lottery Ticket Worth $329k Sold in Minnesota

It's someone's lucky day! Just a few hours ago, we learned that a winning lottery ticket was sold in Minnesota. Whoever has the matching numbers is the winner of over $329,000.

Winning Gopher 5 Lottery Ticket Sold in Minnesota

It was a Gopher 5 lottery ticket, so if you've played that recently, you'll definitely want to double and maybe triple-check those numbers.

The odds of this happening are pretty slim, as they are with winning any kind of lottery drawing.

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The Odds of Winning the Gopher 5 Jackpot

On the Minnesota Lottery website, they say the odds of winning the Gopher 5 jackpot amount, which means all five of the numbers on your lottery ticket match the drawn numbers exactly, are about 1 in 1,533,939.

Not to crush your hopes of winning the lottery, but there's a slightly better chance that you'll get struck by lightning. The National Weather Service says you have about a 1 in 1,222,000 chance of being struck by lightning.

But someone beat the odds and just won the Gopher 5 jackpot!

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Gopher 5 Jackpot Winner in St. Michael, Minnesota

The winning ticket was sold in St. Michael, Minnesota at The Marketplace, a grocery store in town.

(It appears The Marketplace is now a Cub Foods, but the store where the winning ticket was sold is referred to as The Marketplace in the Minnesota Lottery press release.)

The winning ticket matched all five drawn numbers from the July 11th drawing, which were 1-7-22-26-29.

Even though the drawing was on Friday, it takes a while to go through all of the ticket numbers that were sold, so we just found out today that someone has a matching ticket.

Whoever that person is will win $329,553. That's some life-changing money right there!

The person with the winning ticket has one year to come forward and claim the prize.