{"id":486315,"date":"2026-02-19T22:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486315\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T22:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:59:15","slug":"christmas-gift-turns-into-250k-lottery-win-for-brampton-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486315\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas gift turns into $250K lottery win for Brampton woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

A winning lottery ticket given as a Christmas gift will help a Brampton woman pay for school, a home and her wedding.<\/p>\n

Taylor Scott is a fashion design student from Brampton who has played OLG lottery games off-and-on since she turned 18. The 30-year-old student got a Christmas gift of a lottery ticket from her mom, but didn\u2019t scratch it right away.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt had been sitting on my desk for a few days when I noticed it and got the feeling I should play it. I was working on a project at the time and thought, \u2018I\u2019ll scratch it later,\u2019\u201d she said while picking up her winnings at the OLG prize centre in Toronto.<\/p>\n

But Scott says she \u201ccouldn\u2019t shake the feeling,\u201d and decided to play the Instant 25 Days to Win ticket right away. She saw she\u2019d won, but didn\u2019t realize how much until later.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until Scott and her mother checked the ticket on the OLG app that they discovered she\u2019d won a top prize of $250,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were both in shock,\u201d she said of her win.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"\" <\/p>\n

The money will help pay for Scott\u2019s education, save for a wedding fund, launch a fashion business, and put a down payment on a home.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels amazing to have won big,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Instant 25 Days to Win was available for $10 a play, with a top prize of $250,000. The OLG says it supports safe play and responsible gambling through its PlaySmart program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The winning ticket was purchased at Brampton Civic Variety in the Brampton Civic Hospital.<\/p>\n


\n INsauga’s Editorial Standards and Policies <\/a><\/p>\n

Last 30 Days: 63,016 Votes<\/p>\n

All Time: 1,230,243 Votes<\/p>\n

3104 VOTES
\n Should bike lanes stay or be removed? <\/p>\n

\tWIN A $100 GIFT CARD<\/p>\n

Subscribe to INsauga\u2019s daily email newsletter for a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A winning lottery ticket given as a Christmas gift will help a Brampton woman pay for school, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-486315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}