Lottery player shares tickets with her husband — and one hit the jackpot. Who got it?

A Virginia Lottery player got lucky twice in one day: once when she bought a winning ticket, and the second time when she managed not to include it among the tickets she gave away.

Lolita Moore didn’t say exactly how many lottery tickets she bought, but it was enough that she felt compelled to share with her husband, the Virginia Lottery reported in a Jan. 10 news release.

“Once the Chesterfield County couple got to scratching, one of her tickets turned out to be a $125,000 winner,” lottery officials said.

The ticket was a $5 Merry Money 50X scratcher.

Details of her reaction — or his — were not released. But it’s clear Moore is rethinking the idea of giving away lottery tickets, even to her husband.

“Can you imagine if I bought the tickets and gave him the winning ticket?” she said in the release.

Moore beat odds of 1 in 367,200 to win the top prize in Merry Money 50X, the lottery said.

She got the tickets at the Ironbridge Shell gas station in North Chesterfield, about a 15-mile drive southwest from Richmond, officials said.

Moore’s plan is to put some of the money into savings and use the rest to “do a little home remodeling.”

This story was originally published January 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM with the headline "Lottery player shares tickets with her husband — and one hit the jackpot. Who got it?."