Virginia: How many times have you been lucky enough to win a lottery ticket in your life?! Lottery is often a situation where success is mostly governed by chance. Very few of us are fortunate enough to win a dream lottery. However, in a rare instance, whether you believe it or not, a man for Virginia, United States recently had the fortune of winning a lottery not just once, twice or thrice, but twenty times at a single go!
According to a recent report, a man named William Newell, bought twenty identical lottery tickets for a same lottery event. Astonishingly, he won all 20 of them and bagged a total prize money of USD 100,000, which is around INR 75 lakh in Indian context.
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Following his almost impossible like victory in the lottery, Newell stated to the organizers of the Virginia Lottery that he usually purchases tickets from a nearby store. However, for the first occasion, this time he bought all twenty of them via online on October 23rd.
Reports also say that he bought twenty similar tickets for the ‘Pick four drawing’. During this he chose the numbers 5-4-1-1. Miraculously, when he matched the number of his tickets with the winning numbers of the lottery, the combination was exactly accurate.
With this incredulous stroke of luck, Newell has become the talk of the town.
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