‘So surreal’: Cochrane man wins $100k on scratch lottery ticket

Gregory Foley, from Cochrane, Alta., won $100,000 on a Crossword Bee Lucky ticket. (WCLC handout)

A $5 scratch-and-win ticket gifted to a Cochrane man for his birthday has net him $100,000.

Gregory Foley’s mother bought him the Crossword Bee Lucky ticket from the Dovercourt Esso in Edmonton.

When he scratched it, Foley won one of the available top prizes.

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“It’s so surreal,” he said in a Tuesday news release from the Western Canada Lottery Corporation. “I was in shock.”

Foley says he’s still trying to figure out how to spend the money.