Leslie Marpuri, a 31-year-old Hayward resident and student at Foothill College, is Californias newest millionaire. Marpuri won the .6 million jackpot, becoming the sixth millionaire on the California Lotterys game show. The life-changing win will allow Marpuri and her family she is married and has four children to move out of their one bedroom apartment and into a nice new, spacious home. She will receive approximately 000 each year for the next 20 years. But the win almost didnt happen. Marpuri laid claim to her ticket to the show at one of the Make Me a Millionaire Mall Tour stops, even though she and her husband hadnt planned to go to the mall that day and didnt even know the Lottery game show was having an event there. She talked her husband into going there to kill some time, and before they knew it, they were in line to try their hand at the Safe Cracker game and she had her ticket to the show. Her luck continued as soon as she began the Millionaire game. Marpuri played a perfect game by correctly guessing higher or lower 10 times in a row to spell out MILLIONAIRE. Contestants are afforded two incorrect guesses before the game ends, but Marpuri never received a strike against her. I still cant believe it I feel like Im in a dream, she said. When I hit 000 and realized I still hadnt made a mistake I thought to myself Im going to win.

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