Winning a lottery prize certainly has its appeal, though it’s a matter of sheer luck, given that lotteries are purely chance-based. According to National Weather Service statistics, your odds of being struck by lightning are nearly 20,000 times greater than winning the Mega Millions jackpot. Despite these daunting odds, sometimes luck does strike. For instance, an Ohio man won $50,000 (almost ₹42 lakh) in a Pick 5 lottery by using the license plate numbers of his beloved dog.
Roger Sours from Tiffin, Ohio, reported to Ohio Lottery officials that he bought a Pick 5 ticket on Wednesday at the Pit Stop on N Washington Street. He chose the sequence 1-0-8-2-2, which, coincidentally, matched the license plate of his late German shepherd. Sours, who usually watches lottery draws on TV, was astonished when he saw the results and said he “froze” upon realizing he had won. He plans to use the winnings to settle some bills and increase his savings. While winning the lottery is incredibly rare, it’s not entirely impossible.
In another lottery story from the U.S., a woman discovered in April that she had won $500,000 (about ₹4 crore) in the Michigan Lottery. Remarkably, a tarot card reading on the same day had predicted her lottery win.
According to USA Today, the woman purchased scratch-off tickets at a BP station in Fenton before her tarot reading. Despite having no prior expectation of winning, she was guided by the tarot cards to anticipate financial gain. Her shock was evident when she uncovered the substantial prize on her tickets. She promptly visited the lottery office to claim her winnings and now plans to pay off her car, take a trip with a friend, and make some investments with the prize money.