When it comes to winning a lottery people will go to anylength and this man from Virginia did so by buying identical tickets bearingthe same numbers.
James Swimpson, of Elizabeth City, N.C., told VirginiaLottery officials, he decided to buy 20 Pick 4 tickets bearing the numbercombination 1-4-4-1 when he visited a store.
The same numbers won him a much smaller amount previously and so he decided to try his luck once more. This time around he ended up winning $100,000 (Rs 74 lakh, approximately) from a Virginia Lottery drawing with $5,000 prize tickets.??
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Swimpson said he knew the numbers were lucky because a fewyears ago the same combination earned him a $5,000 jackpot.?Swimpson said he plans to use his winnings to pay off bills.?
In another incident, in October this year a Detroit man whoaccidentally bought an extra lottery ticket has won two $1 million jackpots.
Samir Mazahem, 56, of Dearborn Heights said he was savingnumbers on a lottery app after buying a $2 ticket for the June 9 Mega Millionsgame. He then realised that he had purchased a second ticket with the samenumbers.
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In a similar incident of freak luck, four beggars won bigafter a scratchcard handed to them by a charitable gambler drew 50,000 euros($59,000), French lottery operator FDJ said earlier in October.
The four men in their thirties were begging outside alottery shop in the western port city of Brest when a departing customer handedthem a scratchcard purchased for one euro.
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