{"id":15071,"date":"2019-08-08T15:40:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=15071"},"modified":"2019-08-08T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T19:40:10","slug":"brick-couple-wins-250k-from-scratch-off-lottery-ticket-bought-in-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2019\/08\/brick-couple-wins-250k-from-scratch-off-lottery-ticket-bought-in-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Couple Wins $250K From Scratch-Off Lottery Ticket Bought in Town"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Damon Cherico and Shayna Flanders of Brick. (Photo: NJ Lottery)<\/p><\/div>\n

State lottery officials said a lucky Brick couple is $250,000 richer after hitting the jackpot on a scratch-off game.<\/p>\n

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Damon Cherico and Shayna Flanders, both of Brick, are regular players of New Jersey Lottery scratch-off games, officials said, and they have always loved the crossword-style games. The couple goes to the same store each week \u2013 Joe\u2019s Food Market on Herbertsville Road \u2013 for new tickets, hoping for a lucky one.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe store has signs up displaying all the winning tickets it has sold, and Damon and Shayna were hoping to be added to the wall of winners,\u201d said MaryAnn Rivell, lottery spokeswoman.<\/p>\n

While in the store recently, they noticed the retailer had just opened a pack of $250,000 crossword tickets and decided to grab the first ticket in the pack. After returning home, Damon was scratching off that $250,000 Crossword ticket, as Shayna was scratching off a ticket for a different game.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce I uncovered the letter \u2018T\u2019 on the ticket, I knew I was going to win at least something,\u201d Cherico said.<\/p>\n

He continued scratching and uncovered the \u201cP\u201d and \u201cI\u201d and turned to Shayna, saying, \u201cWe\u2019re going to be OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

After uncovering eight words out of the possible 10, the anticipation started to set in. Finally, Damon uncovered the final letter \u201cL\u201d and realized they had matched all ten words \u2013 winning the quarter-million dollar jackpot.<\/p>\n

The couple told Lottery officials that the big win led to a few sleepless nights as they tried to process the good fortune, hardly able to believe they were so lucky.<\/p>\n

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Damon and Shayna intend to use some of their prize to get ahead of bills and replace their older cars, saving the remainder for their future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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State lottery officials said a lucky Brick couple is $250,000 richer after hitting the jackpot on a scratch-off game. Damon Cherico and Shayna Flanders, both of Brick, are regular players of New Jersey Lottery scratch-off games, officials said, and they have always loved the crossword-style games. The couple goes to the same store each week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[24,3772,203,3773],"class_list":["post-15071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-damon-cherico","tag-new-jersey-lottery","tag-shayna-flanders"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screen-Shot-2019-08-08-at-3.33.44-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-3V5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}