Brentwood Man Wins Missouri Lottery “St. Louis Cardinals™” Scratchers Game - Patch.com

A couple of lovebirds from St. Louis have located the first $70,000 top prize on the Missouri Lottery “St. Louis Cardinals™” Scratchers game.

Kyle Boyd of Brentwood and Heather Franz of St. Charles are engaged to be married later this fall. A shopping trip to Dierbergs, in St. Charles, resulted in the win.

“Every time we go to the grocery store, we get $20 in Scratchers,” Franz said.

“It’s kind of our small little thing,” Boyd said. “Whenever we go to the grocery store and stock up the pantries, we’ll just buy two $5 Scratchers for both of us. If we win our money back, we’re very excited. (We) didn’t expect that one.”

Franz picked the “St. Louis Cardinals™” ticket.

They scratched the tickets at home with friends as they prepared dinner on March 31.

“No one was scratching them, and I wanted to scratch mine,” Franz said. “The first one (line) was $1,000, and then the next one was $1,000. I stopped scratching after a while, because I was like, ‘This is insane.'"

Plans for the windfall have already been made.                                                                   

“We really just started planning our wedding a couple of months ago. It’s perfect timing," Boyd said. "We’ll have a little bit of extra spending money. Down-payment on a house, wedding and honeymoon and a little bit extra to save, and I’m a pretty happy camper."

Boyd said they’ll keep playing on trips to the grocery store.