Josh Buster believes a printing error made him a millionaire. (Credit: Iowa Lottery) CLIVE, Iowa - An Iowa man believes a ticket-printing error paved the way for him to win the $1 million Mega Millions prize.
Josh Buster, 40, of West Burlington said he went to play the lottery for a drawing. But instead of giving him five-easy pick plays, the local convenience store clerk mistakenly just printed one play.
The clerk then asked Buster if it was okay to print the remaining four plays on a separate ticket. "I feel like that changed the numbers that I would have gotten if he had put them all on one instead of making that mistake," Buster said in a news release.
Buster works at a local restaurant as a prep chef. He claimed his prize last Monday at the Iowa Lottery headquarters after realizing he had won the previous Saturday. RELATED: Powerball jackpot: No winners in $400 million drawing"I got up to go to work early in the morning.