This Connecticut community college student couldn’t afford to regularly splurge on lottery tickets.

However, one day, he “ was in the mood for a little fun and figured he’d try his luck,” Connecticut Lottery officials said in a June 5 news release.

And it’s a good thing he did, as “his life changed” upon seeing one of his lottery prizes, officials said.

The student bought two tickets at a Ansonia convenience store: a $20 20X Cash 9th Edition scratch-off ticket and a $30 High Roller Progressive Fast Play ticket, lottery officials said.

Both of the man’s tickets were winners — his scratch-off ticket won him $1,000, while the other scored him a jackpot prize of $547,414, according to lottery officials.

He beat odds of 1-in-203,703.70 to score the High Roller game’s top prize .

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