Dennis McGurk, of Nampa, won $2,500 in the Idaho Lottery after multiple $1,000 back-to-back wins.
Idaho Lottery
Dennis McGurk bought a few Idaho Lottery tickets, and he “kept winning $1,000 back to back,” officials said.
Then he bought another ticket and scored an even larger prize.
He won $2,500, the Idaho Lottery said in a Wednesday, Dec. 14, Facebook post.
McGurk, from Nampa, doesn’t know how he kept winning, but he said he won’t play cashword games.
“Oh, there’s no rhyme or reason as to what games I play. I just like to have fun,” he told the Idaho Lottery.
He said he also scored $2,500 in 2015 around the same time of year.
McGurk, who works at a local cheese plant and has lived in Idaho for 17 years, plans to use his money on his 14-year-old granddaughter.
He said she has high-functioning autism. He usually takes her on “dates” every Tuesday to the movies.
Nampa is about 20 miles west of Boise.
Helena Wegner is a McClatchy National Real-Time Reporter covering the state of Washington and the western region. She’s a journalism graduate from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She’s based in Phoenix.
