Posted on 02/05/2022 6:56:35 AM PST by yesthatjallen
One very lucky guy just collected a six-figure lottery win in Virginia, after all 264 of his tickets came up winners in two separate drawings, Virginia Lottery officials say.
Yes, 264 tickets.
Jalen Taylor of Charlottesville won $132,000 when each ticket proved to be worth $500, Virginia Lottery officials said in a Feb. 3 news release.
The prize came after Taylor went big and bought two large batches of Pick 3 tickets over a two-month span. The first was 104 tickets with the numbers 960 he got for the Nov. 18 drawing, and the second was 160 tickets with the numbers 542 he purchased for the Jan. 10 drawing.
Tickets are $1 each.
Both of his 3-digit combinations were drawn, netting him $52,000 with the first batch and $80,000 with the second, officials said.
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Hey, if Biden can win with 81 million votes...
I have seen lottery addicts do that. Sort of like raising the wager on blackjack after a losing streak. Hoping to make up losses at one time.
So, he picked two winning numbers, but had a bunch of tickets for each. Good for him, but NBD.
LOL, I think we all were thinking something along those lines.
That clause in the lottery agreement needs to change. In today’s world, such widespread publicity can put the winner in harm’s way.
Hope he’s ready for an anal exam. He should have spread out his tickets instead.
That is not possible...
Was he a big winner? He only won 500 per ticket.
Yeah, and Biden won the election too.
There were two different numbers. The headline omits that fact so we rush to read the article, and are annoyed at the bait and switch that is so common in headlines.
I thought Whitey Bulger was dead...
Why would anyone buy several tickets with the same numbers?
Agree...they should have been shuffled in. They better re-program their system.
And how much of that is he going to lose in taxes? Guessing the net gain wont be that much to brag about. Especially now that he’ll have friends clawing to him for free stuff assuming he pocketed over 100k.
All of the $132,000 and more is likely to end up back in the lottery in the next couple of years.
Actually they are less and it’s not even close. The odds of winning a Pick 6 drawing with one number chosen are 1000 to 1. So the odds of winning two straight drawings are 1000 x 1000 = 1,000,000 to 1. The odds of winning any Powerball drawing with a single play are over 292,000,000 to 1.
“ Why would anyone buy several tickets with the same numbers?”
Time machine!
Thnx for clarification
264 positive picks would be impossible
2 picks I can at least envision the probability
Don’t panic!
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