A Bloomfield woman has won $250,000 in a scratch ticket game.
Dale Broadbent won playing Instant Crossword Deluxe.
The mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother says she hasn’t made plans for the windfall just yet but she is thinking about travelling and upgrading her vehicle.
This is her first big win.
“I was sitting in my kitchen, playing my ticket and not paying much attention to how many words I had matched,” Dale recalled, while at the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto to pick up her windfall. “I scanned my ticket on the OLG app and saw the ‘Big Winner’ screen. I thought I was seeing an ad, so I cleared the screen and scanned my ticket one more time.”
Unsure of what was happening, Dale had her husband take a look. “At first, we thought I had won $250, then he noticed all the zeros that followed. It was quite a shock for us both!” Dale smiled.
“I don’t think I really believed it until now. I never thought this would happen to me! There is so much I can do with this win. I haven’t made any plans yet, but I may travel and upgrade my vehicle,” Dale concluded.
The winning ticket was purchased at Scott’s Store on Lake Street in Picton.