An Ohio couple's trip to a Kentucky restaurant ends with a $100,000 lottery win

Wendy and Steven Green visited their favorite restaurant in Kentucky and won a $100,000 Keno prize. Photo courtesy of the Kentucky Lottery

Green purchased a Keno ticket during a recent visit to the restaurant. He said he plays the game frequently and usually chooses the same 10 numbers, a combination of family birthdays and ages.

Green said he mixed up his routine by changing a few digits and buying a $5 ticket instead of his usual $10 ticket.

“Oh my God, we hit a lot of numbers here,” Wendy Green recalled as she examined the ticket.

The couple asked a bartender to scan their ticket.

“She scanned it, but it said, 'Look at KLC Corp, the price exceeds the withdrawal limit,'” Steve Green recalls.

The ticket matched 10 of the 20 numbers in the Keno drawing and brought in a prize of $100,000.

“I kind of screamed '$100,000,'” he said. “I had goosebumps. It took about 10-15 minutes for it to absorb.”

The Greens said their prize money will help them save for their upcoming retirement.