Over two dozen middle-school employees in Kentucky won a $1 million lottery prize.
The "Jones 30," a group of current and former school employees, have played the lottery for years.
They hid their winning ticket in a math textbook, the group's organizer told the Kentucky Lottery.
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A few dozen middle-school employees in Kentucky banded together to play the lottery and won a $1 million prize.
The group of current and former employees of Rector A. Jones Middle School in Florence, Kentucky, calls itself the "Jones 30" and has played the lottery for over a decade.
"We all taught at the same school at one point or another," one winner told the Kentucky Lottery, according to a press release.
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