A Vietnam veteran walked into a liquor store in Massachusetts on a cold December day. He played the Lucky for Life Game lottery, like he had been doing for over 20 years.
His intuition told him: “don’t just buy one ticket, buy 6. And don’t just use any numbers, use the exact same numbers on each ticket.”
As luck would have it, Raymond Roberts’ numbers came in, and were worth $390,000 (£324,000 or ₦174,185,700) each as a cash prize. Mr Roberts chose to take a lump sum for 5 of the tickets – earning nearly $2m (£1.6m or ₦893,260,000) in total.
For the 6th ticket, he chose the annuity option – meaning he will also get 20 annual payments of $25,000 (₦11,165,750). The lottery gives a set amount for correctly drawing 5 balls, as Mr Roberts did, meaning multiple wins with the same numbers are possible.
The winning numbers Mr Roberts chose were a carefully concocted combination of birthdays and anniversary dates. He had used them on other lottery tickets, on other days, but had always drawn a blank.
The veteran, from Fall River, 80km south of Boston, collected his winnings on Thursday 15 December 2022. What does he plan to do with his unexpected riches? For starters, he says he’ll buy a motorcycle.
According to the rules of the Lucky for Life game, the odds of winning just the $25,000 per year for life prize are one in 1,813,028. Residents of Massachusetts spend the most (per capita) on lottery and scratch-off tickets than anywhere else in the USA.
SOURCE:
http://www.bbc.com
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