Sometimes striking while the iron’s hot could result in a big win, or two, as far as lottery games are concerned.
Just ask Bridgeport, Connecticut resident Shelley Suttles, who took home a $1 million jackpot after winning a $100,000 prize in the summer from playing the Cash5 Lottery, a daily draw game.
Suttles won the $1 million prize when he stopped to pick up a couple of things from the Grand Package Store, which included an Ultimate 7s scratch-off game ticket, the Connecticut (CT) Lottery said on Tuesday, Sept. 30. The store will also receive a $10,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.
“I almost passed out. I scratched off the box and saw a million dollars,” Suttles told the CT Lottery. “I’ve never seen a million dollars on a ticket before. I picked up the phone and told my sister, and she started screaming. She couldn’t believe it either.”
When state lottery officials caught up with Suttles, a regular CT Lottery player, he was still in disbelief that he had won.
“I still don’t believe it,” Suttles tells the camera, while clutching his check. “I just don’t believe… that it happened. But it did.”
Suttles plans to use his winnings to pay off bills and offer a donation to his local church. According to the CT Lottery, the “overall odds” of a win from Ultimate 7s are 1 in 3.47 and 1 in 72.1 for Cash5, or 1 in 12.1 for Cash5 with Kicker.
After Suttles’s $1 million win from Ultimate7s, which was the last “top prize,” state lottery officials have ended the game. Any winning tickets, including other major prizes, for this game must be validated before March 29, 2026.