A northern Kentucky family is a half-million dollars richer thanks to a scratch-off ticket.

In a release, the Kentucky Lottery said William Hicks and his sons William Hicks Jr. and Stephen Hicks of California, Kentucky, claimed a $500,000 Kentucky Lottery Scratch-off ticket last Friday.

William owns a garage door repair company where both of his sons work. The brothers ride to work together and stopped at a Speedway station in Alexandria on Friday morning.

Each bought a scratch-off ticket. “I’ll usually scratch one and he’ll scratch one,” William Jr. said.

“Stephen suddenly tells me we’d won $500,000, but I figured he was looking at it wrong. We must have looked at it 40 times, and I asked to be pinched a few times,” he said.

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