Brier Store Sells Second Jackpot Lottery Ticket Since July

BRIER, WA — This is almost equivalent to getting hit by lighting twice. Within two months. At the same location.

The tiny Brier Grocery store sold a $120,000 jackpot Hit 5 ticket on Aug. 7, and that follows a $12.2 million Lotto ticket sold there in July — and that was the biggest win for that game over the last decade.

Players have a one in 576,000 chance of winning the Hit 5 jackpot, according to Washington's Lottery. The odds of winning the Lotto jackpot are about one in 7 million.

The chance of getting hit by lightning in one year? About one in 700,000.

Both jackpot winners have chosen to remain anonymous.

"My car is more than 20 years old but it runs well! My husband is looking to buy me a new one. That’s the only splurge we’ll do. We’re very simple people, my husband and I always tease one another saying, ‘you’ll win one of these days.’ It finally happened!" the woman who won the $12 million jackpot told state lottery officials last month.

In case you want to try your odds, Brier Grocery is located at 23607 Brier Road, just north of Lake Forest Park.