“No one looks in a math book.”

The group’s organizer is a retired math teacher and she said keeping it in a textbook made sense.

“No one looks in a math book,” she said.

The “Jones 30” pose with Mary Harville, President and CEO of the Kentucky Lottery.

Courtesy Kentucky Lottery.

“I knew it would be safe there.”

The organizer said she checked the ticket - in an envelope on page 200 - a thousand times.

The “Jones 30” have been playing the lottery together for more than eight years.

The group organizer hid the lottery ticket in a math book.

Courtesy Kentucky Lottery.

Even as members retired or moved schools, the lottery continued to bring them together.

“Its just cool to win as a group and share this experience, one winner said.