Man follows his intuition and wins the lottery six times
Talk about following your instincts...
Lottery winners sure have special stories to tell - and this man is none the different.
Raymond Roberts has been playing the lottery for more than two decades.
On one evening he decided to purchase not one, but six tickets.
"His intuition told him: don't just buy one ticket, buy six. And don't just use any numbers, use the exact same numbers on each ticket. As luck would have it, Raymond Roberts' numbers came in, and were worth $390,000 (£324,000) each as a cash prize." (BBC)
In rand terms that equates to R6.6-million per ticket. What a chance he took, and it really paid off. Roberts decided to take a lump sum payment for five of the tickets, which equated to $2-million (R33,961,800).
"For the sixth ticket, he chose the annuity option - meaning he will also get 20 annual payments of $25,000 (R424,522)." (BBC)
Roberts, who picked up his winnings in December last year, shared that the winning numbers were a combination of birthdays and anniversaries.
According to the Lottery, he plans to buy a motorcycle.
"And according to the rules of the game, the odds of winning just the $25,000 per year for life prize are one in 1,813,028." (BBC)
Clearly the odds were in his favour...
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