Lotto winner scoops $132,000 in less than two months by purchasing 264 winning tickets in a row after ‘feeling’ he’d win
A LOTTO winner scooped $132,000 in less than two months by purchasing 264 winning tickets in a row.
Jalen Taylor said he had a "feeling" he would win before playing.
He told Virginia : "I had a feeling. When you get a feeling, just play.”
Taylor first won $52,000 in the November 18 drawing of Pick 3.
His 104 tickets, all with the three-digit combination of 9-6-0, each won the game’s $500 top prize.
Then, just two months later he won $80,000 after buying 160 tickets with the winning combination of 5-4-2.
Each $1 ticket again won $500 in the January 10 draw.
Taylor now says he hopes to save and invest the money he has won.
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His win comes after a lotto winner who used the same numbers for 16 years finally saw her perseverance pay off after she scooped the jackpot.
Lola Allen won $264,419 in the North Carolina lottery with a $1 Cash 5 ticket.
The Sun reported last week on the army vet who won $4million on the lottery after he used the numbers from a fortune cookie.
Gabriel Fierro, 60, bought the sweet treat while he was dining with his wife at the Red Bowl Asian Bistro in Charlotte,
Fierro received an email that he had won which left him “dumbfounded” and his wife thought it was a scam or April Fools Joke.
His big win comes after Laura Spears found a $3million prize in her spam email and almost missed out on winning the lottery jackpot.
SPAM ACCOUNT
Spears, of Oakland County, Michigan purchased a Mega Millions ticket for the December 31 drawing through the Michigan Lottery website.
She told : “I saw an ad on Facebook that the Mega Millions jackpot was getting pretty high, so I got on my account and bought a ticket.”
Spears constantly checked her account to see if any emails had come through before she found a message from Michigan Lottery in her spam folder.
She matched all five white balls for a prize worth $1million and also had the Megaplier which was worth three times the winning amount for a grand total of $3million.
And one scratchcard player in Maryland scooped the jackpot prize for the third time in three years and bought all the winning tickets from the same shop.
GET LUCKY
The Sun last week revealed the luckiest towns in America.
Indiana is the state to be in when it comes to buying a ticket with the state accounting for 39 jackpot winners, where, just to be different it is called the Hoosier Lottery.
Missouri comes in second with 31 winners, while Minnesota is third with 22.
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At the other end of the scale though, Maine, Mississippi, North Dakota, Vermont, the Virgin Islands and Wyoming have never had the opportunity to toast a jackpot winner.
The biggest win in Powerball history came on January 13, 2016 when the grand prize of $1.586billion – the biggest lottery prize ever in the US – was shared by winners in California, Florida and Tennessee.
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