Lottery game caught woman’s eye at Idaho mall. A month later, she scored a big prize
.jpg "A caseworker from Payette, Idaho, scored a big prize after playing The Big Spin in Boise.")
A woman was at mall in Idaho when she saw a lottery game she wanted to play.
Sandra Garcia, a caseworker in Payette, got the chance to play it a month later, and she won $70,000, the Idaho Lottery said in a news release.
Garcia saw the big wheel of The Big Spin game while back-to-school shopping with her nephew in August at Boise Towne Square, lottery officials said.
She told her nephew she hoped she would get a chance to spin the wheel.
Then on Sept. 20 she got to fulfill her wish.
A group of about 50 people watched her play the lottery game and score her prize.
“I wished for it, and here I am!” Garcia told lottery officials. “This is really exciting!”
Garcia said she plans to put her prize money into savings.
In the game, players buy a scratch-off and get a chance to spin a digital wheel if they uncover a wheel on the ticket. If that spin stops on “big spin,” then users get to spin the big wheel like Garcia.
