An Ohio store clerk's mistake paid off for a customer whose erroneous lottery ticket turned out to be a $158,585 winner.

Sometimes luck doesn’t just knock — it shows up as a checkout mix-up. A Lake County man told Ohio Lottery officials that he went into a Chestnut Food Mart in Painesville on March 14, planning to play EZPLAY Quick Spot.

An Ohio woman’s streak of bad luck turned around when she won $100,000 after accidentally buying the wrong lottery ticket — beating nearly 1-in-900,000 odds in a Friday the 13th drawing. The unidentified Sheffield Village resident was initially furious at herself for mistakenly buying a Mega Millions ticket instead of her usual Powerball at a Lakewood Cap & Cork liquor store last week — but shrugged it off,

A single ticket bought in the state matched all six numbers in Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing, snagging the game's advertised $60 million jackpot. The winning white balls were 4, 11, 18, 38 and 50, with Mega Ball 24.

Wow! Somebody who bought their Mega Millions lottery ticket in Ohio is waking up as the world's newest multimillionaire!

The man bought a $20 Set for Life scratch-off ticket from Collas Market, 5509 Mahoning Ave., Austintown, that netted him $15,000.