In Massachusetts, a man won the lottery on six tickets at once: he chose the same numbers for 20 years
On a cold December day, a Vietnam veteran walked into a liquor store in Massachusetts. He bought lottery tickets, as he had done for over 20 years. But this time, his intuition prompted him to buy 6 tickets at once, and with the same numbers. What came of it, said the publication with the BBC.
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His intuition told him: buy not one ticket, but six. And don't just use any numbers, use the same numbers on every ticket.
And luck smiled at him: Raymond Roberts won the Massachusetts Lucky for Life lottery, which brings in $ 25 a year for at least 000 years. But he won the prize six times in one draw by buying six tickets with the same number, writes Fox13News.
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Lucky numbers are a combination of anniversaries and birthdays. He said that he has been playing with these numbers in several lotteries for over 20 years.
The Vietnam-era veteran claimed his prizes on December 15 by choosing a $390 cash lump sum option on five of the six prizes, totaling $000 million before tax. For his sixth prize, he received the first of at least 1,95 annual payments of $20, the lottery said.
Roberts said he plans to use part of his winnings to buy a motorcycle.
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He bought his winning ticket at a liquor store in Fall River, Massachusetts, which will receive bonuses for selling winning tickets totaling between $30 and $000 for each of the six tickets.
According to the data, the odds of winning just $25 a year in a lifetime are 1 in 1. Massachusetts residents spend the most per capita on lottery tickets than anywhere else in the US.
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