US Man Wins $390,000 Lottery After Playing With Family Birthday Numbers For 7 Years

A man in the United States has struck gold by betting on his family, in a way. He has finally been successful in a lottery held on Friday.

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In his case, consistency was the key.

'Lucky for Life' lottery

The man consistently played the lottery with the same set of numbers for seven years. He has finally struck it big and won a huge prize.

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In a 'Lucky for Life' drawing held on Friday, Paul Caudill from Winston-Salem utilized his family's birthdate numbers, leading to a successful outcome of winning a prize of $25,000 per year for life.

Mr Cadill has been playing the same numbers ever since the game began. "The numbers are all different birthdays for people in my family," he said.

Couldn't believe luck

He couldn't believe his luck when he actually won the lottery.

"I figured there must be an error," he said, as NDTV quoted. "I couldn't sleep the rest of the night."

According to the North Carolina Education Lottery, Mr Caudill bought his lucky $2 ticket from 1 Stop on West Mountain Street in Kernersville. He won his prize by matching all five white balls in Friday's drawing.

A news release stated, "Caudill became one of two players in North Carolina who matched all five white balls in the drawing. The other ticket came from Charlie's Tobacco Outlet on Eastchester Drive in High Point."

A whopping 390,000 dollars

Caudill claimed his prize Monday and had the choice of receiving $25,000 a year for the rest of his life or a $390,000 lump sum.

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He chose the $390,000 lump sum and, after required state and federal tax withholdings, took home $277,879.

"I can pay my house off now," he said.

Third biggest lottery in US history won recently

In an unrelated incident, a man in Florida won a $1.58 billion Mega Millions jackpot last week on Wednesday.

A grocery store in Neptune Beach sold the winning ticket, according to the Florida Lottery.

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A Rs 13,000 crore ($1.58 billion) jackpot ¨C if the prize is confirmed at that level ¨C would exceed the Mega Millions record of Rs 12,600 crore ($1.537 billion) won in South Carolina in 2018, the lottery said. Along with being the largest windfall in Mega Millions history, it was apparently also the third biggest in US lottery history.

The all-time record for largest lottery jackpot was a $2.04 billion Powerball prize won last year in California.

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