Woman wins Rs 1.8 crore jackpot from ¡®accidentally printed¡¯ lottery ticket

Talk about being lucky, and that too by mistake! That is exactly how a woman from the US state of Nebraska found herself thousands of dollars richer. Lori Sailors from the city of Lincoln in Nebraska hit the jackpot by winning $220,000 (Rs 1.8 crore) on a Nebraska Pick 5 lottery. What makes Sailors' winning the jackpot even more impressive is the fact that the ticket was printed by mistake.

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Lottery printed by mistake

Sailors purchased three quick pick plays for the June 22 drawing at Casey's store on N 48th Street in Lincoln, one of which was an extra Pick 5 ticket that was printed by mistake. And that turned out to be her lucky number as it matched that night¡¯s winning numbers: 04, 11, 22, 24, and 27.

"I don¡¯t let the mistakes go. I don¡¯t just let them sit there," Sailors said.

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Second time lucky with tickets printed by mistake

She has a good reason for not letting go of lottery tickets printed by mistake. This is because this is the second time a Nebraska Pick 5 lottery ticket printed by mistake turned out to be the lucky one for her. In 2019, Sailors won $54,000 (Rs 45 lakhs) from a Pick 5 drawing which was also a ticket that had been printed by mistake.

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Nebraska Pick 5

Nebraska Pick 5 is a unique lottery game, and the odds of winning the jackpot, which starts at $50,000 and increases by $10,000 for each drawing without a winner, are 1 in 658,008. Sailors and her husband, Monte, said the latest winnings will go toward paying off their daughter's student loan and bolstering their bank savings.

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