Dad fulfils running joke by giving stepdaughter $200,000 winning lottery ticket

26 July 2023 , 07:09

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Cally Krisell was given a $200,000 ticket by her stepdad (Image: AP)

A man had his stepdaughter in hysterics and fulfilled a promise after securing a big Powerball lottery win.

Cally Krisell was given $200,000 when her stepdad's ticket matched the Powerball and four of the white balls on July 17.

The winning numbers gave the unnamed man a $50,000 prize, but he had added the PowerPlay option to his ticket, multiplying it by four for the expense of just $1 more when he purchased it at Flash Market in Clinton.

Cally explained a running joke between her and her stepdad was that he would give her the winning ticket if he ever won the lottery

“My stepdad plays the numbers of me and my daughter’s birthdates,” Cally, from Greenbrier, Arkansas, told the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery. “We always had a running joke that if he won big, he would give me the winning ticket.”

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Cally added that her stepdad surprised her at home to tell her "he had good and bad news."

Cally said her stepdad surprised her at home with the news (AP)

She said: "He gave me the bad news first - I must start paying my own phone bill. The good news - I have money to pay it with, and then he gave me the lottery ticket!"

The big win for Cally will see her spend the money of a family vacation and money to redo parts of her home.

She recently claimed her lottery prize at the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery (ASL) Claim Centre.

The kindness of Cally's stepdad comes after a lucky bartender won a prize of $17,500 without even buying a ticket.

Aurora Kephart, 25, was given a ticket by a loyal customer at the restaurant she works at in Oregon.

Lucky bartender Aurora Kephart, 25, was given the ticket by a regular customer (ABC)

The anonymous patron and Aurora had an ongoing understanding he would give her tickets as a tip. He bought two tickets for her on October 3 and found she had won just $5 with the first, but then realised she had won a major sum.

"[When I saw,] I turned around and I automatically handed it right back to him," she to ABC News. "He had me sign it so nobody could steal it. Then he said, 'Now that you've signed it, you're the only person who could cash it.'"

Aurora, who works at Conway's Restaurant and Lounge in Springfield, added: "I forced him to take it. I'm too humble for that.

"I absolutely just want to pay it forward. I don't intend to keep all that money for myself."

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The restaurant worker said she wasn't going to blow the money straight away, but did want to buy herself a new couch.

Benjamin Lynch