Uber driver $140,000 richer after passenger gives him winning scratcher as a tip

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It was a chain reaction, with one winning scratch-off leading to another until finally a Colorado man was holding a check for $140,000.

James P. is an Uber driver, and recently a passenger gave him a $5 Super Special Ultimate Bingo Scratch ticket as a tip, Inside Edition reports. He ended up winning $30 from that ticket and invested that money into six more tickets. James said he continued to win and "just kept rolling it over and over into more tickets," and after six weeks, he purchased a winning scratcher worth $140,000.

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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.