What can be better news than receiving a big fat check just in time to celebrate the holiday season? Think about it, because this is by far the news anyone would love to receive specially around this time of the year when you get to share with all your loved ones. As adults, somehow this season of the year produces a mixed feelings, for starters we have stopped believing that Santa exists, and we are in our right for we know that those men dressed in red are but a fragment of someone´s imagination and a tale that is handed on from generation to generation and for maybe a purpose we might not still work out. The truth is gifts are always at someone else´s expense, it´s not like they manifest out of thin air from an unknown land up there in the North Pole. However the magic of the lottery wins around this time of the year somehow does save the day. Because to win is actually a miracle, and a miracle that landed upon you, you could actually see it as Santa´s gift. National lottery

For Roxanna Nye of Tiskilwa, her holiday season was announced in a very special way, a way many of us would dream of. She is the newest million dollar winner from the Illinois holiday season Lottery’s $200,000,000 Cash Spectacular instant game. Roxanna bought her ticket on December 3rd at Beck
Oil in Princeton.

Roxanna’s daughter, Mollie, accepted an over-sized commemorative check from Illinois Lottery Superintendent Michael Jones at the Thompson Center on her mother’s behalf. Lottery numbers

It is very funny how many wins occur, in the case of Roxana who is very familiar with playing lottery games, she usually plays the instant game Bingo. In fact, she has been having small wins, she won $1000 twice last year. On the day of her win she didn´t buy her usual game, she wanted to try something new and simply happened to buy $200,000,000 Cash Spectacular game. And she has absolutely no regrets about her choice, although it was a decision that was more of an impulse more than a rational one.

After Roxanna bought her ticket, she went to her car as she always does to scratch her tickets and she checked it over and over again, she simply could not believe her eyes. She immediately called her husband, “I was so excited andfreaking out that he thought I crashed the car,” Nye said.

Roxanna chose to take a lump sum payment of $600,000, but hasn’t decided on what to do with her winnings.

“It’s still very hard to believe,” Nye said.

Beck Oil will receive a $6,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.