Jackpot! Lottery Group Nets $17.5M

It was Lacelle who called fellow poolmate Michel Toupin at 3 a.m. to tell him the extraordinary news. Even after verifying the results over the Internet, they were in disbelief, according to the Journal.

The other eight winners were all notified before 7 a.m. the next morning, and the group found it hard to concentrate on the tasks at hand.