Tyler Dinuzzo || Issue 15 || March 5, 2025
Every day, countless people try their luck and purchase lottery tickets all across the country. Whether they’re idly shopping or meeting up with a friend or whatever else, plenty of people just can’t resist a ticket, because of that obvious, age-old question: What if I win? Despite the chances being astronomically microscopic, lottery tickets are still sold, and every so often, once in a blue moon, the universe calls back to that question everyone asks-someone wins. Recently, that lucky someone was an
individual in everyone’s favorite good ol’ Saratoga County. Lottery tickets are sold in plenty of places all over New York, and this fortune slip happened to be in Ballston Lake. On Sunday, February 23rd, the New York Lottery announced that a ticket was sold for a third-prize winning $100,000 prize. That’s a one with five zeros. Talk about a jackpot! A Hannaford located right at 43 Round Lake Road in Ballston Lake was reportedly the location in which this ticket was sold, and likely a location that one lucky individual will remember more than anything else. We could talk endlessly about how incredible of a tale this is, but it is important to recall that these moments, while ceremonious, are incredibly rare. People may think of this moment because it’s the one moment where the gamble of a lottery ticket actually succeeded, but people will only remember stories like these because who would want to talk about the dizzying number of times people haven’t gotten that dream? The astronomical number of times people tested their luck, and it just wasn’t their day, will always be forgotten in favor of the deafening ceremony of the individuals who get really lucky. (Photo Credits: Newsbreak)
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