A lucky lottery player in Southern California has claimed the first-ever top prize of a scratcher lottery ticket that celebrates the game's 40th anniversary, California Lottery officials said Wednesday.

He’s the first grand prize winner in the “40 Years of Play!” scratchers game celebrating the lottery’s creation.

The recent run of lottery Scratchers jackpot wins in and around the Bay Area continued with a lucky player in San Jose.

A California Lottery Scratcher ticket worth approximately $15 million, was sold in February at a 7-Eleven in Van Nuys, California. A Southern California man, Israel Martin Rodriguez, has claimed the prize. The 7-Eleven store that sold the winning ticket also received $75,000.

A woman was given a $20 scratch-off from her dad, and the California prize left her in “disbelief,” lottery officials said. Ashley Eugene was gifted a Maximum Millions ticket from her dad for Christmas, but she didn’t check it right away and had no idea it carried a $5 million prize, according to a May 16 news release by the California Lottery.