Winning the lottery seemed to be an easy task for one Prescott, Ark., man.

It started when he purchased a $5 Super 7 lottery ticket and won $5.

Then he used that $5 to buy another $5 ticket.

That ticket won him $77,777 about 3 a.m. Wednesday.

Lottery officials identified the winner as Jamaal A. Cole of Prescott, who bought the ticket at the Exit 44 Truck Stop in Prescott.

Bobby Johnson, a clerk at the truck stop, said the clerk selling the ticket was Lou Ann Greenwood.

“Both were in shock. They couldn’t believe it. They bo...

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