Massachusetts man buys lottery tickets to break $100 bill, wins $10 million

Jan 26, 2015, 2:05 pm (29 comments)

Massachusetts Lottery

A Massachusetts man who bought two lotto tickets so he could break a $100 bill to buy lunch was left stunned after he ended up scooping an astonishing $10 million in prize money.

Richard Noll only purchased two $20 Platinum Millions instant tickets at Lanzilli Groceria in East Boston so he'd have smaller notes to buy food at a sandwich shop, reports ItemLive.com.

But he ended up with much more than he bargained for when he scratched the cards — and discovered he was a newly minted multimillionaire.

Noll claimed his prize alongside his wife Leese at the lottery's Braintree headquarters on Thursday.

He chose to receive the windfall as a one-off $6.5 million payout, which, after taxes, means he'll have $4.55 million in the bank.

Revere-based Noll said he now planned to buy a house and take his granddaughter to Disney World.

Mitesh Patel, who sold him the winning ticket, will also receive a $50,000 bonus.

Lottery bosses said that Noll was the third $10 million prize winner in the Platinum Millions game since it launched in 2013.

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Comments

RJOh's avatarRJOh

"Mitesh Patel, who sold him the winning ticket, will also receive a $50,000 bonus."

Congratulations to Richard Noll and Mitesh Patel.

Chacha33

Congratulations to Mr. Noll; use that money and go someplace warm for a while!

music*'s avatarmusic*

Congratulations  to Richard & Leese Noll !! and also to the store owner Mr. Patel. 

Good Luck to all LP members !!Party

ThatScaryChick's avatarThatScaryChick

Congrats to the Noll's on their big win! Cheers

TnTicketlosers's avatarTnTicketlosers

The Patels win the second chance games here all the time.It's all about them in Tennessee.Just feel lucky you live in another state..Im happy for this man..I love seeing good things happen to good people in another state.I know it's really reaL.

PrinceRene

Congrats to Mr. Noll and Mr. Patel. 

maringoman's avatarmaringoman

Mass Lottery churns out so many millionaires in scratch cards, it's mind boggling. But it's not as easy as it may appear. Mr. Noll you are one lucky man. Mr Patel caught some windfall Thumbs Up

Long Odds

Congratulations to the winner. The common thread in many of these winner stories is the winner only purchased the winning ticket for another purpose, change to buy a sandwich (requires the purchase of two $20 scratch tickets); stuck in traffic, so bought three, $20 tickets; doing laundry and wanted to pass the time, et al. I play lottery games to win and so do all these players.

dallascowboyfan's avatardallascowboyfan

Congratulation Mr. Noll.

Gleno's avatarGleno

Got to love this story. What a stroke of luck. Congrats to Mr. and Mrs. Noll and to the retailer, Mr. Patel.

Wink

Artist77's avatarArtist77

They look like a very nice couple.

RJOh's avatarRJOh

Quote: Originally posted by TnTicketlosers on Jan 26, 2015

The Patels win the second chance games here all the time.It's all about them in Tennessee.Just feel lucky you live in another state..Im happy for this man..I love seeing good things happen to good people in another state.I know it's really reaL.

Patel seem to be a popular name in lottery winners stories.  I heard a Patel took over a local gas station that sells lottery tickets, maybe I'll start buying my tickets there.

noise-gate

Quote: Originally posted by RJOh on Jan 26, 2015

Patel seem to be a popular name in lottery winners stories.  I heard a Patel took over a local gas station that sells lottery tickets, maybe I'll start buying my tickets there.

Good for you, maybe some of the Patel Luck will rub off on you RJ..Thumbs Up 

Coin Toss's avatarCoin Toss

Congrats to the winner, the Lottery Fairy was definitely good to him.

Anybody doubt that it's luck?

Lep

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