Mega Millions Lottery Winning Ticket Found In Old Recliner
- By Randi Polinski
- Published 06/11/2008
- Mega Millions Lottery

Lucky Lottery Lounger The Mega Millions lottery has found themselves winners in many different ways. There have been teams of people who pool their money and have hit the grand prize. there are also individuals who have used spare change to buy a winning ticket.
For a couple in Sacramento, California, it was an old beat up recliner chair that held the lucky ticket. Candy Tyree and her husband were getting ready to throw away an old recliner over the weekend.
In the process of preparing to throw the chair away, Tyree's husband Jim asked her if she had checked the Mega Millions lottery ticket he
When she checked the ticket, she found that her and her husband had won $249,050. "I'm good at throwing his stuff away before he's done," said Candy, while picking up their money at the Sacramento Lottery District Office.
The couple had planned on throwing the chair away, but after winning the lottery money, they may just reconsider that proposition. "It could be a lucky chair now," said Tyree.
They bought the winning ticket at the intersection of Main and Madison Avenues in Orangevale.
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