On Tuesday morning (Feb. 3), Waseca resident David Gorick stopped at By The Way, 123 E. Elm Ave. in Waseca, to exchange $12 in winning Lottery tickets for two Holiday Slots tickets. The store had only one ticket left in the pack, so Gorick bought that ticket and another for a different game. He won some money on these tickets and went back to By The Way later in the day to buy four Holiday Slots tickets from the new pack.

After he finished watching Wheel of Fortune that evening, Gorick scratched the tickets in his home office. He revealed three stocking cap symbols on the first spin to win the game’s top prize of $100,000. “I knew right away when I saw the caps,” Gorick recalled. “I had to take a deep breath. I stared at it a while, started shaking and had to go upstairs to tell my wife.”

Gorick claimed the prize at Lottery headquarters in Roseville on Feb. 4.

Holiday Slots is a $5 scratch game that offers a top prize of $100,000.

Overall odds of winning a prize by playing Holiday Slots are 1 in 3.57. Three of six top prizes remain. To play, uncover each spin in the 10-spin play area. If you reveal three identical symbols in the same spin across, win the prize shown in the Prize Legend. In the Bonus Spin, if you uncover three “7” symbols, win $25 instantly.