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The man, who said he only buys scratch-off tickets "every once in a blue moon," said he ended up forgetting about the tickets for two weeks.
"I had it at home for 14 days before I scratched it," the man said. "I only remembered the tickets were at home yesterday, so I scratched them and there it was!"
One of the tickets, a Live the Life scratch-off, turned out to be a $201,587.10 winner.
"It was very exciting. I thought it must have been a mistake," the winner recalled. "It feels so good to win something!"
The winner chose to take his prize money as weekly installments for five years.
"It's such nice security," he said.