‘Something told me to try a new ticket’: Grandma’s last-minute choice turns into a $3 Million miracle

A senior woman in Illinois decided that she was gonna change her routine just a little bit. Next thing she knew, she was scratching off a ticket that revealed she was now a winner of a $3 million prize. 

Winning the lottery has always gone down to luck. But as Albert Einstein once said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,” and that also applies to luck. If you’ve never been lucky doing something the one particular way, chances are that you’ll probably never actually find luck that way.

For this grandma, she always just bought a crossword scratch-off casually, and nothing ever turned out as a winning ticket. Which is to be expected, since the chances of winning the lottery are usually 1 in a million regardless of which ticket you prefer. But one day something just changed. She explained, “When I saw the $3 million top prize on the Super Bonus ticket, I just knew it was meant to be. It felt like divine intervention.”

For some reason she just believed that this ticket was the one and it was gonna be her lucky break. Unlike most winners who end up forgetting about their ticket until days later, she took it to her husband and together they scratched the ticket. And much to her surprise, she actually won!

She went to collect her check and chose to anonymously identify as “Happy Grandma.” People reports that at the press conference, she told the press about when she first found out she won, saying, “I asked my husband, ‘Am I hallucinating?’ Then we scanned the ticket with my phone to double-check, and that’s when we really lost it. We screamed and screamed—it was like we were in shock for a while!”

She’s not the only person who has switched up how she’s approaching buying lottery tickets. Recently, there was a lady who participated in the PowerBall, but instead of just guessing numbers, she decided to outsource that duty to ChatGPT and, much to her surprise, she won. Eventually, she decided to give away her winnings to charity.

It doesn’t even end there. Another family recently turned tragedy to triumph when, after the matriarch of the family passed away, they finally decided to clean up their attic. For years, their mom had told them that she had classic comic books that could be worth a fortune up there. They ignored her because the chances of that were slim. When they finally did something they never did, they found none other than a mint-condition copy of the first ever edition of the Superman comic. They ended up getting a cool $9 million from that alone.

The lesson here is not to gamble as much as you can in as many different ways as you can. Gambling remains one of the silent ailments of society—for every one winner, there are thousands of people struggling with trying to kick off a very bad habit that affects their finances. The lesson here is to take a chance on something new. You literally never know what’s on the other side of that.