Tourist from Hawaii wins jackpot on $60
Sunday, May 30, 1999 | 3:42 a.m.
The woman, whose name was not released, hit the Jeopardy MegaJackpot.
The 29-year-old winner is an operations manager at a flooring distributorship in Waipahu.
"I stopped to play Jeopardy because there was another woman who was winning a lot," she said in a statement. "When the symbols lined up, I thought I won 5,000 credits."
The woman said she plans to use some of her winnings to help her aunt build a church. She said she went to The Mirage with her family to check out the resort's white tigers.
Jeopardy - a three-quarter progressive game that builds from a base amount of $200,000 - is based on the game show and is one of 17 Nevada MegaJackpot systems developed by International Game Technology.
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