By Associated Press - Friday, December 13, 2019

IMPERIAL, Mo. (AP) - A St. Louis-area man is a $1 million winner in a Missouri Lottery scratch-off game.

The Lottery said Friday that James Dane of Imperial won the prize on Dec. 4 while playing the “$300 Million Cash Explosion” game. He purchased the winning ticket at a Mobile On the Run station in Arnold.

When he got home, Dane decided to have some fun with his wife. He asked, “What would you do if we won $10,000?”



“She said, ‘I don’t know. Since we’re not going to win $10,000, I’m not going to worry about that,’” Dane said. “So I slid her the ticket and said, ‘How about a million?’”

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