An accidental lotto ticket purchase won a Michigan woman more than $100,000, which she happily collected Wednesday, the Detroit Free Press reported.
Linda Keyanchuk planned to buy a multi-draw Powerball ticket online earlier this month but accidentally bought six Powerball tickets instead.
The blunder ended up winning the 64-year-old two $50,000 prizes after she matched the four white balls and the Powerball twice — 10-21-30-43-63 PB: 17 — in the Aug. 8 drawing.
She also matched three numbers and the Powerball four times to win an additional $400, according to The Michigan Lottery.
"I didn't realize my mistake until the next afternoon when I logged in to my lottery account and saw I had won more than $100,000," said Keyanchuk, according to Inside Edition.
She said she kept logging in to her account to make sure that she really had won.
"People like me just don't win money like this. It's unreal!" she said. "It's been exciting thinking about what all of this money will mean for me!"
Keyanchuk said she plans to use the money to pay for an upcoming vacation and the remainder she hopes to save, The Michigan Lottery noted.
The occasional slip up could actually be worth it when it comes to playing the lotto.
Earlier this year a New Jersey woman who accidently received the wrong lottery ticket from a cashier ended up winning $5 million after she decided to buy it anyway, The HuffPost reported.
In an equally stunning moment, Armando Ortiz was taken aback when he found out he won more than $97,000 after his mother wrote down the winning numbers for him incorrectly.
When Ortiz went to pick up what he thought was his $300 winnings, he was astounded by what he saw.
"I went to the retailer and scanned my ticket in the ticket checker and thought, something's wrong," he said. "Instead of $300, it said $97,328."
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