Roy Wiggins couldn’t believe his eyes when he scratched off his $30 Scratch’ N Win ticket from the 7-Eleven store in Blackfalds.

“I drove to work and scratched the ticket in my car,” he remembered. “I thought, ‘Gee, I think I won!’” “I wasn’t sure I was reading the amount right, so I drove to the store to double-check it,” he added.

The Red Deer resident won $2.5 million on his $250 Million Golden Treasures lottery ticket.

“There’s a 99.9% chance I’ll be on a boat soon,” he laughed.

With his $2.5 million windfall confirmed, Wiggins’s mind turned quickly toward the sailboat he’s already imagining.

“I think I'll set sail somewhere along the Georgia Strait,” he said.

Wiggins is the second Red Deer resident to become a lottery millionaire in just over six months.

In December 2016, another man from the city claimed a $1 million LOTTO MAX prize won on a free ticket.