Posted on 08/03/2020 1:43:39 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
CHANDLER, N.C. (CNN) — After around 40 stores and four hours of searching, one North Carolina man finally struck gold.
Kevin Clark, of Candler, North Carolina, played a hunch and went on a journey to find the last top prize of the $5,000,000 Mega Cash scratch-off game.
“I had a real good feeling it was going to be in the western part of the state,” Clark said, according to the NC Education Lottery.
Clark spent four hours going store to store, buying every single $20 Mega Cash ticket, until he finally found the winner at a Stop N Go on U.S. 70 in Swannanoa, North Carolina.
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I don't know if I could drive around for 4 hours...Buying lottery tickets...
I think someone tipped him off to the general location of the last ticket.
How many people got the same idea and spent their rent money on losing tickets?
I hope he tithes!
Oompah loompah doopity doo.
How much did it cost him to buy up all the remaining twenty dollar tickets? Aren’t there dozens of them at each location?
It does sound like he had insider info. If I were him...take the cash, and leave the country.
I wouldn’t dismiss the possibility that this guy never bought the winning ticket at all ... and that he actually claimed the prize on behalf of someone who doesn’t want the world to know they’ve come across a lot of money.
Sometimes, sometimes not.
In this case I expect a lot of people were looking for that last big winner.
Say he averaged 10 tickets per store that would be $200 per store, 40 stores gives a total of $8,000 spent.
If this guy had $8,000 laying around he didn’t need the money just wanted it.
Persistence pays off.
As I understand scratch off games, only limited numbers of tickets are printed for each game. Winnings are published. A devout player could notice many retailers were out of tickets for that game and that the 5 million dollar one had still not been sold yet yet. Nothing nefarious about it.
I have an app that keeps track of how many winning tickets remain for each game and then adjusts the odds of winning accordingly.
The crooked insertion of The NC Education Lottery years ago, was custom made for just this type of story... Is the winner by any chance, related to a man by the name of Jim Black?
Professional lottery players would develop a sense of patterns. He would know, for example, if a decent sold in one county, it’s highly unlikely the grand prize is that county. He’d just work on eliminating counties until he has a few that he has to comb.
People who spend a lot of time playing lottery learn tricks that they use to increase their chances. I got to a point, myself, where I could play and not lose a whole lot of money. I wasn’t making much, but I was almost at an equilibrium between my spending and my earnings.
He’ll be broke in a year
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I don’t know about other states, but in Texas there can be games by the same name that look identical, but are different game because the game number is different.
By golly I think you are right. why else would someone spend 8k on tickets in only one part of the state. Sounds like insider info.
I’ll bet everything I own that he’ll be in bankruptcy court within 18 months!
Bingo!
We Have a Winner!
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