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The winner story, as the Lottery tells it: Richard Peterson, a machinist from Mishawaka, claimed a $100,000 top prize on the $5 $20 Million Payout Scratch-off, the Hoosier Lottery announced in its winner story of April 27, 2021. The winning ticket was purchased at O Discount Mart on Lincolnway East in Mishawaka — the store's name printed here exactly as the Lottery's story gives it. Peterson and his wife Debra bought a couple of $5 scratch-offs together a few times a week; on this occasion he had gone to buy two Stacks of Cash tickets, found only one left, and bought two $20 Million Payout tickets instead. At home, while his wife was on the phone with her son, he scratched and thought he saw $100,000 — “It looked like I had just won $100,000, but there was no way” — called her over when she hung up, and heard her screaming, “You're right!” He called his brother with the news. The couple's stated plans were the documented ordinary ones: money into the house, a nice vacation, and a contribution to each of their seven children.
Its place in the roll: Peterson's is the only Mishawaka win in the record reached that carries the full documentary form at six figures — named resident winner, named game with its price and odds (the story gives the game's estimated overall odds as 1 in 3.79), named sale store in the winner's own city, and a claim the Lottery itself published. Set beside the two unnamed millions above, it defines Mishawaka's winner record honestly: the city's best-documented win is not its largest, and its largest wins are its least documented. The claimant form is a named individual — no trust, no partnership, no anonymity device appears in the story, and none is claimed.
Sources:
- Hoosier Lottery winner story, “Richard Peterson” (April 27, 2021) — Mishawaka machinist, $100,000 top prize, $5 $20 Million Payout Scratch-off, O Discount Mart on Lincolnway East in Mishawaka, the circumstances and plans as told above, overall odds 1 in 3.79.