While Glenn and Linda Moore may have been playing the lottery for decades, it only took seconds to make the Welland couple big winners. The Moores won $800,000 after getting the chance to spin the “Bigger Spin Wheel’ at the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto. The big win marked the end of a journey that began when Glenn, at Linda’s urging, took the couple’s Bigger Spin ticket to a local store to be validated. Linda was sure it was a non-winner.
She was wrong.
“When the animated wheel landed on ‘The Bigger Spin’, the clerk was so excited, saying, ‘You’re heading to Toronto!’” Glenn said. “I was thinking, ‘Toronto? For what?’”
That is when Glenn found out that he and Linda would have a chance to win a minimum of $500,000 and a maximum of $1 million, spinning an oversized wheel with various dollar amounts marked on it.
“I went straight home to tell Linda, and she thought I was joking,” Glenn said.
“I was just stunned,” Linda added. “We put the ticket in a safe place and guarded it with our lives.”
When they got to the prize centre, the couple were impressed.
“I didn’t know what to expect when I saw the wheel, but it was impressive,” Linda said.
“People we didn’t even know were so happy for us, clapping and cheering us on. It was such a fun experience,” Glenn added.
The couple were overwhelmed when the wheel came to a stop, and they found out just how wrong Linda had been about their winnings.
“As the wheel came to a stop on ‘$800,000, I began to cry thankful tears,” Linda said.
“We’re so excited and deeply grateful for this whole experience,” Glenn added.
The Moores, who have been married 55 years, are not sure what they will be doing with the winnings and will be leaving it in the bank while they decide.