The $3.77 Million Grocery-Run Ticket
Published September 30, 2026
Susan Savoie of Lafayette matched all six numbers in the Sept. 2 Louisiana Lotto drawing, ending a nearly eight-month jackpot rollover. The $3,773,180 prize is the largest Louisiana Lotto jackpot since November 2025. After state and federal tax withholdings, she took home $2,754,421.40 — and the Super 1 Foods store that sold the ticket earned a $37,731.80 bonus.
For nearly eight months, the Louisiana Lotto jackpot kept rolling — drawing after drawing with no winner, the prize climbing higher each time nobody matched all six numbers. That streak finally ended on September 2, when a regular grocery run in Lafayette turned into the biggest Louisiana Lotto win in nearly a year. Susan Savoie bought her ticket at Super 1 Foods No. 641 on Ambassador Caffery Parkway, and when the numbers came up 20, 21, 23, 25, 32 and 38, she held the only winning ticket in the state.
The prize was worth $3,773,180 — the largest Louisiana Lotto jackpot since November 2025. The nearly eight-month rollover was the reason it had grown so large: every drawing without a jackpot winner added more money to the pot, and players across Louisiana kept feeding it in anticipation of exactly this outcome. Savoie, whose ticket matched all six numbers drawn that night, ended the run in a single drawing.
What actually lands in a winner's bank account is always less than the headline figure, and Savoie's win illustrates why. After state and federal tax withholdings were taken out, her prize came to $2,754,421.40 — still life-changing money, but roughly a quarter of it never reached her. The Louisiana Lottery reported the final figure when the win was announced, a reminder that the number on the billboard is never the number on the check.
The win also paid out at the register. Super 1 Foods No. 641 received a $37,731.80 bonus from the Louisiana Lottery for selling the jackpot-winning ticket — one percent of the prize. According to the lottery's Lafayette regional manager, Amanda Capdeboscq, the store marked the occasion by putting up a banner and flyers near the registers so regular customers would know they were shopping at a lucky spot. Lottery president Rose Hudson said the agency was excited for Savoie, who broke a rollover that had stretched through most of the year.
The unglamorous machinery of claiming a prize deserves its share of the story. The Louisiana Lottery advises every player to sign the back of a ticket immediately after buying it, which protects the claim if the ticket is lost or stolen, and draw-game winners must claim their prizes within 180 days of the drawing date. Savoie's ticket is now claimed and paid — the rollover is over, the banner is up at the Super 1, and the jackpot starts from scratch again.
Rolling jackpots get big for the same reason they are hard to win: millions of tickets don't match, and the pot keeps growing off the money they left behind. Every enormous jackpot is really a monument to all the drawings that came up empty. This one ended the way they all end — with a single ticket, bought on an ordinary errand, that happened to hold the only six numbers that mattered.
The lesson: Jackpots get huge because most tickets lose — the boring parts (sign the ticket, claim it on time, plan for the tax bite) matter as much as the lucky numbers.
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