A Man From the Town Luck Got Lucky and Won the Lottery

Just imagine that you buy a lottery ticket out of fun and end up winning a bucket load of money. Dreamy right? Well, a man from the small town of Luck, Wisconsin, got lucky enough to win $15.1 million. Over the last eight years, no one in the town of 1,191 people won the Megabucks lottery jackpot, but this year was different.

The Story Behind $15.1 million and 2 Bucks

One fine day, Mark Cunningham of the town Luck visited Wayne’s Food Plus on 151 Butternut Avenue and bought a few lottery tickets. Who would have known that he was taking home not one but two winning tickets? That’s right! Cunningham headed to the Wisconsin Lottery office to claim his money and find out one of his tickets made him win $15.2 million, and another one was two bucks. Well, the lottery people themselves were surprised to know that they sold such a huge ticket, but it turns out it indeed was a lucky day in the town of Luck.

History of the Town

Around 2.5 square miles in size, Luck was established by Danish immigrants on the banks of Big Butternut Lake in the late 1800s. The same folks established West Denmark, another community, on the banks of Little Butternut Lake, to the northwest. Although both parties were aware that this was a bad decision to not merge the two towns, they anyway decided not to.

The humor is reminiscent of a recent GNN piece on the Scottish town of Dull, which made the decision to merge with Boring, Oregon, in 2012 with the aim of making both more entertaining. The mayor of a town called Bland in New South Wales, Australia, decided to join in on the fun in 2017 and proposed that the towns work together to market the Trinity of Tedium as a tourist route.