A Missouri woman said she was buying her mother a birthday cake at Schnucks Market in St. Louis, Mo., when she decided to buy the Powerball ticket that earned her a $50,000 prize. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
The player said she didn't realize she had won until she saw a Facebook post from the Missouri Lottery saying a ticket worth $50,000 had been sold at the store.
"I was thinking, 'Oh, I bought my ticket at Schnucks,'" the winner said. "Sure enough, I went and checked my ticket. Wow!"
The player discovered she had matched four of the five white ball numbers from the drawing, as well as the Powerball. She said she scanned the ticket with her phone and asked her son to double-check to make sure she was reading it right.
Wednesday's Powerball jackpot is estimated at $378 million.
