Two $250K Missouri Lottery Winners Unknown—Could One Be You?

Were you extremely lucky, but not know it yet? There are two mystery winners in Missouri who were just revealed to have won nearly a quarter million dollars, but neither has acknowledged that it's them - yet.

Does this Missouri convenience store look familiar to you?

I'm asking because that convenience store/gas station in St. Charles, Missouri is one of two locations that had nearly quarter million dollar winners last week. According to the Missouri Lottery's Unclaimed Prizes page, two in Missouri stopped in completely different stores last week and both won $249,000 playing the Show Me Cash game.

How much cash would you take home after taxes from a $249,000 Missouri Lottery win?

According to Smart Asset, you could expect to pocket just over $181,000 in Missouri from a lottery win of a quarter million bucks. They warn that the final tax bill might be higher considering that stroke of good fortune would likely kick you up to a higher tax bracket at the end of the year, but that's something for your newly-hired accountant to worry about, am I right? I think that most these days would agree that would be a nice problem to have. No better way to beat inflation than to suddenly have to deal with $249,000 of show me cash. Bring on troubles like that.