Insisting on buying lottery tickets has become a habit, but they have exchanged a normal heart for a huge prize. Back in 2016, an American couple used a set of numbers to buy a Powerball lottery ticket and insisted on betting for 3 years, eventually winning a huge prize of 528 million yuan (about 3.55 billion yuan). Not long ago, an elderly American man bought lotto 47 lottery tickets and insisted on keeping the number for 30 years to get $18.4 million (about 119 million yuan); a couple in Canada insisted on keeping the number for 36 years, winning the lottery 6/49 lottery 6 million Canadian dollars (about 30.3 million yuan).
The couple kept the number for 3 years and collected $528 million The husband announced that he was retiring
In January 2016, a couple from Florida, David Kaltschmidt and Maureen Smith, bought a Powerball lottery ticket and won the jackpot of $528 million. The couple was at a shop in the small town of Beach, Melbourne, and bought the winning ticket. In this group of prize numbers, they have been using the number for 3 years, and after learning that they have won the lottery, his wife Maureen Smith often has difficulty sleeping every night.
At the time of redemption, the couple chose to receive the full prize of $327.8 million (after tax) at once. Asked how to deal with the huge bonuses, her husband, a former manufacturing engineer, Said He planned to retire; And his wife, Smith, said she wanted to use the bonus to bring a better life to her family.
Lao Bo Shou won a huge prize of 18.4 million US dollars (about 119 million yuan) at the end of 30 years.
In July 2021, a 61-year-old man from Roscongate County, Michigan, hit the jackpot of the Lotto 47 lottery and won a huge prize of $18.4 million! The old man has been buying lottery tickets since 1991, and he has been guarding the prize numbers in this group since then, and has been insisting on it for 30 years!
Recalling the checking of the prize number that night, according to the grand prize winner, "Before going to bed that night, I checked my prize tickets. When I saw that set of numbers, I could hardly believe it, I thought I was blind. After calming down, I checked at least a dozen more times before I believed I had won the lottery! At the time of receiving the prize, the winning boss chose to receive the full prize money at once, and finally received $11.7 million.
Canadian couple keeps the number for 6 million Canadian dollars in 36 years (about 30.3 million yuan)
In April 2022, a couple from Columbia, Canada, Joery Leung and Lana, had been using their family's birthday number combination to buy lotto 6/49 lotteries for 36 years, eventually hitting $6 million. On the day of the draw, the Jorys did not check the winning situation, the next afternoon, their son called to tell them that they might have won the lottery, Jory asked his wife Lana to check the lottery information, and found that they really won the $6 million jackpot. After receiving the grand prize, the couple immediately helped their daughter pay off the loan and bought a new car for their son.
The bettors who insist on keeping the number and bet on the final jackpot are only a minority after all. And the author also deeply feels that these bettors actually adhere to this "habit" with a very ordinary mentality when betting. Keep the number betting, keep the luck, buy the mood, look forward to the luck.
in Warwick