'There was one lady who won $52,000 out here on a scratch-off,” Bauder told us. It's Wakeman where Rick Bauder knows, alongside the picturesque, down-home feel of Wakeman, lots of people have been feeling lucky. I'm still waiting on a couple of 'em,” laughed Shockley.īut what about the luckiest town in Ohio? 'A lot of people tell me that they'll buy me a car and stuff. She works at Brownie's Market that sold a couple of the huge winning tickets. Shannon Shockley has lived her whole life in Sheffield Lake. “When I buy the instants, I always go in the backyard with the dog and I take the dog out with me and say, 'Okay, Ollie, I'm going to scratch the tickets off. Sheffield Lake only has a population of about 9,000, some of whom have interesting lottery rituals.

In the past three years, there have been eight major winners. She lives in Sheffield Lake which is the second luckiest city in all of Ohio. 'I didn't know it and I'm amazed and now I'll just have to try and win more,' said Barb Hoover. 'We now we have opportunities to do things we never did before,” reflected Eric. They’re smiling because the Baucans, from Garfield Heights, know all about lucky scratch off tickets. 'I'm looking (at the ticket) and I'm like 'Oh, my God!'” grinned Sandy Baucan 'I was in a state of shock for a couple minutes,' said Eric Baucan. The top two, based on population, are right here in Northeast Ohio. We combed through a massive amount of data from the Ohio Lottery finding the cities and towns that have four or more big winners of $25,000 or more.

How many times have you picked up a scratch off lottery ticket hoping to win the big jackpot? What if you knew where the luckiest towns have been in Ohio in the last three years? Where the luckiest store is?

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