Doesn’t matter that he played the same numbers or not - fact is, there are probably millions of other people playing the lottery for the 18 years that have and will only lose.
I have a university frat buddy who was a math major and is now working at Microsoft. He studies permutations and statistics so he did calculating the numbers and crunched. Before graduating (and boozing), he gave us an advice to play the same numbers for (I think he said 12 years) “religiously without skipping” and we’ll hit the jackpot.
Im not sure I believed him due to the booze but he has 5 houses and Im not sure MS pays him that well...