OREGON -- A granddaughter in Oregon nearly threw away a fortune.
She was checking her grandfather's lottery tickets and was about to trash one when she thought it was a loser.
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Luckily, her 94-year-old grandfather checked for himself.
As it turns out, his granddaughter was checking Mega Millions numbers when she should have been checking a game known as Megabucks.
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Her grandfather actually won the $6.5 million jackpot!
He took the lump sum of $2.2 million after taxes.