The very last ticket in the stack, for the March 15 Raffle, caused the machine to display a message Carr didn’t understand, so she asked the store clerk for help.
“I heard him say, ‘Oh, I can’t cash this because your prize is worth over $1,000,'” she said. “That’s when I started getting butterflies.”
Carr’s ticket, bought from the same Fred Meyer store, was a $1 million winner.
“I had no idea I was the winner,” the player said. “If it weren’t for the billion dollar Powerball winner making news, I would have forgot. We don’t check our tickets.”
Carr said winning is a “dream come true,” and her plans include paying off her mortgage, buying a new truck and taking a vacation to Hawaii.