Coworkers get surprise of their lives on lotto ticket they thought won $350: Everything changed

It was a surprise jackpot.Two coworkers from Illinois thought they’d only pocketed $350 on a recent lottery ticket — but were left “in total disbelief” after finding out they missed a few zeros and had actually won $350,000.Randy and April of Ashton, Illinois, have been trying their luck with lottery tickets for years — but the coworkers struck gold when an early January Lucky Day Lotto drawing delivered an unexpected result. Randy purchased the winning ticket on Jan.7 at a West Chicago supermarket, Jewel Osco, on route to his wife’s doctor’s appointment. “I was taking my wife to a doctor’s appointment and decided to make a quick stop,” Randy told NBC 5 Chicago.“We were at the right place at the right time,” he said. Randy believed the ticket was only worth $350 — but after checking the Illinois Lottery app, April discovered it was worth much more — one thousand times more to be exact.“We were in total disbelief,” April told the local outlet.

“Randy joked about buying more tickets with the $350.When I saw it was actually $350,000, everything changed,” she said.The pair plan to split their lucky winnings and put them to good use — funding their retirement savings and property investments.The coworkers weren’t the only people from Illinois who pocketed big earnings from the Lucky Day Lotto recently — with a local Illinois woman, dubbed “Work Mom,” winning $350,000 from a similar draw.The mother selected numbers to represent her and her children’s birthdays — which luckily matched the five numbers of the winning draw.The “Work Mom” received an email on Dec.

25 saying that she had won big, but assumed it “was a glitch” before confirming her win on the Illinois Lottery app.“I felt optimistic when I played those numbers,” the mom said.“It turned out to be a Christmas Day blessing.”She has already cashed in her prize — and plans to put her winnings towards a trip to Alaska, her daughter’s educatio...