A couple who bought a lottery ticket with the same numbers for nearly 30 years won 1 million Australian dollars (about 873 million won). The husband, who forgot to buy lottery tickets in Jeonju, won the first prize at the same time as two lottery tickets that he ‘buyed’.
The British Daily Star reported on the 15th (local time) that a couple who had bought a lottery ticket with the same number for nearly 30 years had finally won the lottery. The luck of the couple was quite different among the first prize winners. Two lottery tickets with the same number that I accidentally bought won at the same time.
The unnamed husband had been buying the ‘Australian Monday Lotto’ every week for decades, always ‘with a number set by his wife’. Last week, her husband realized he hadn’t bought a Monday lottery ticket, which was drawn on the 6th. Fortunately, her wife’s number did not win first prize. Realizing the mistake, the husband instead bought two lottery tickets for the same number that week.
On the 14th, my wife found out that the number she had purchased for decades had won first place in the lottery held on the 13th. There were a total of 2 winners. Upon learning that she had won half a million dollars, her wife contacted her immediate husband and asked if he had her lottery ticket. Her husband replied that he had ‘two’ of her lottery tickets. “She almost fainted when she heard that she had two winning lottery tickets,” she revealed in an interview with a lottery operator.
The first prize of the Australian Monday lottery ticket purchased by the couple is 1 million Australian dollars (approximately 873 million won). If there is more than one winner, the prize money is divided equally. If you have two first-place lottery tickets, you can receive a much larger prize than the other winners if there are three or more winners.
Unfortunately (?) the couple’s ‘winner at the same time’ did not have any practical meaning. This is because the two lottery tickets the couple bought were the only winning lottery tickets in the draw on the 13th. The couple said they plan to use the winnings to buy a house for their children.
Source: Donga
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