(StraightNews.org) – A Virginia woman has been described as the luckiest in America after six lottery wins in one day. Latoya Burke of Chesapeake purchased six tickets for the Old Dominion’s Pick 5 lottery game and used the same numbers for all six. Burke’s chosen five numbers were called, and she won $30,000 for each ticket – amounting to $180,000 in total. “I checked the numbers and was happy,” she said.
Virginia Lottery spokesperson Jennifer Mullen said she always enjoys lottery wins, but there is “something a little extra fun about unique wins like this.” She added that there is a one-in-100,000 chance of selecting all five lottery numbers in the correct order.
Ms. Burke is not the first to enjoy a remarkable and unusual lottery win. A decade ago, a Massachusetts man won twice after forgetting he was a season ticket holder. Kenneth Stokes of Norwood used his usual numbers to buy a ticket, and his numbers came up. The lucky winner then remembered he held a season ticket with the same numbers, meaning his winning amount was doubled to $546,000.
In 2010, Floridian Richard Lustig reported winning the Sunshine State lottery on seven consecutive occasions. Lustig insisted he was not lucky but followed a carefully thought-out strategy. The first win brought him $842,000, followed by a second windfall of $98,000, but he refused to share the details of the other five. Nor would he share his strategy except to say he uses the same numbers on every ticket. “I’m going to keep winning. I believe in my method,” he said.
Data shows that Americans spend more than $100 billion on lottery tickets each year. The highest-ever payout was in California in 2022 when one person won just over $2 billion. Statistics also reveal that an astonishing 70% of lottery winners end up broke after misspending their windfalls. One winner, Evelyn Adams, lost his $6 million at poker tables. Additionally, more than $2 billion is left unclaimed by unaware winners every year.
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