As luck would have it, a man hits jackpot with the same digits he’s been playing for 30 years
It’s often quoted that hard work always pays off, but what if your luck isn’t with you? Would hard work still count? Because no matter how hard you work, it’s your luck that gets you through it all.
Who would believe in it more than a Coloradan man, Joe B, who has constantly been playing the lottery for the same set of digits for 30 years without any luck. But last month, his luck finally worked out, and he won a jackpot, double prize of $1 million in Powerball. This miraculous incident was reported to the press by the Colorado Lottery this Monday when he was finally able to collect his prize money. The tickets that paved his way towards victory were bought by him last month on the same day and containing the same set of numbers.
Joe looked extremely happy when his year-long wish was finally fulfilled, and he got to hold the two $1 million prize money checks in his hands. Some good casinos have a very strict policy and they provide excellent services.
Although miracles like this do not often happen in lotteries, but this phenomenon is not entirely new. Many such incidences have been reported in the past, though not as many as to make it a usual occurrence.
A similar case was reported to have taken place earlier this year in Delaware when a local man inadvertently got lucky with his lottery tickets. He bought the exact same Powerball tickets, resulting in him winning the cash amount of $100,000 in prize. Although a healthy amount of this winning prize was deducted in the taxes later on, but he was still quite astonished over his lucky win.
A lady, native of Virginia thanked her stars in the year 2012 when another similar incident took place with her. Although, with her, it was more of an accident, or might we say coincidence that she came upon two lottery tickets containing the same set of digits, and was lucky enough to win a jackpot of two $1 million cash prizes not much unlike Joe B.
Though this kind of peculiarity is not seen in Colorado before, but occurrences of such things always add up to the mystery of these chance games, and makes them more appealing to the new crowds. Such marketing strategies often remain successful in maintaining a constant increase in the number of new customers and continue to amaze the regular players. In this way, the regular players find it interesting and do not get bored with playing the same lottery again and again.
As reported by Meghan Dougherty, who is the communication manager at the Colorado Lottery, “This kind of anomaly has not occurred before in Colorado with Powerball.” He quoted this while talking with the CNN reporters.
Nevertheless, such occurrences are not much rare in some other games such as Cash 5 and Pick 3, where people mostly win multiple times in a single draw. Still, the prizes won in these games are nowhere near the prize won by Joe B.