SACRAMENTO – It’s easy to let those SuperLOTTO Plus® tickets get away from you. They’re only a few square inches and as light as a feather. But Monet Bulchand of Inglewood will vouch that he’s got a few more reasons to keep an eye on his.
Along with other forgotten items, his ticket was tucked into a corner of his wallet. It didn’t occur to him to check the ticket until he returned two weeks later to the Fox Hills Mall where he first purchased it. “I asked my wife to let me check my ticket since the Z News Stand was on our way out from the Mall,” Bulchand explained, “I’ve always been very lucky there. I told her, maybe I’ll win $100. She said, ‘Sure, sure.’”
On their way home he placed his crumpled ticket under a California Lottery Check-a-Ticket machine. Bulchand thought he’d only won $9. What he couldn’t quite calculate was why there were 4 digits after the $9. “It didn’t hit us right away,” Bulchand recalled. “But after we got in the car my wife started crying.”
When asked what the Bulchand’s would do with the $90,880 prize they won, they said, “college for the kids” was at the top priority. The Bulchand’s also mentioned their plan to celebrate with a vacation together.
The ticket was purchased at the Z News Stand, a California Lottery ‘Retailer of the Month’ in 2001. Z News Stand is located at 294 Fox Hills Mall in Culver City. It matched the first five numbers – 13, 15, 26, 27 and 36 – but failed to match the Mega number 10. If it had matched the Mega number for the October 22 draw, the winner would have shared the $53 million jackpot won.
SuperLOTTO Plus is one of the most popular California Lottery games. More than 1 million winning tickets are sold in the SuperLOTTO Plus game alone every month.
More than 95 cents of every Lottery dollar is returned to the community in the form of contributions to education, prizes and retail commissions. The California Lottery contributes at least 34 cents of every dollar that players spend on Lottery products to public education and returns more than 50 percent of sales to players in the form of prizes. Since its inception in 1985, the Lottery has contributed nearly $21 billion to California schools out of total sales of more than $56 billion. Retailers benefit too, earning $3.6 billion in compensation since 1985.