"It's hard to buy for somebody who has everything, so I thought, I'll give her $100 in scratch-offs," the man told lottery officials.
The man placed the tickets in a birthday card and presented it to his wife, who was shocked to discover a $20 Wild Numbers 100X ticket was a $500,000 winner.
"She comes walking in the living room and she says, 'Please tell me you didn't give me a joke card.' I said, 'What?' She said it again and I said, 'Babe, I don't joke about money,'" the man recalled.
"She says, 'I need you to look at this.' She showed it to me. I was stunned. I looked at it again and I said, 'Yeah, this is unbelievable.'"
The man visited lottery headquarters to collect the prize on his wife's behalf.
"I told her this will be the best birthday we'll ever have. No way this will ever happen again," he said.
The man said the money will go into the bank for the time being.
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