Woman hits the lottery jackpot and wins $1 million twice in less than 3 months
You'd think that winning the lottery would be a once-in-a-lifetime kinda event, but one woman has managed to win the jackpot twice in just three months.
Christine Wilson, from Attleboro in Massachusetts, has managed to scoop a $1 million prize twice within the space of 10 weeks.
Christine's first win came when she played the 'Lifetime Millions' game in February, where she won $1 million from just $50.
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According to the Massachusetts Lottery site, that particular game has winning odds of 1 in 8,400,000.
Meanwhile, Christine's most recent win came from a $10 game called '100X Cash' - which has winning odds of 1 in 1,612,800.
On both wins, Christine decided to receive her prize as a one-time payment of $650,000.
While Christine bought her first ticket at Dubs' Discount Liquors in Mansfield, her second win came from the Family Food Mart in the same town.
The shop will receive a $10,000 bonus for selling the ticket.
Recently, a Harvard professor revealed the best ways to increase your chances of winning a large sum of money on the lottery.
Many players employ tactics they think will help them win big, while others just accept that the lottery is just purely luck.
However, Harvard statistics professor Dr. Mark Glickman previously told CNBC Make It that there is one proven way of boosting your chances of winning.
It's pretty obvious, but the only way of upping your chances is buying more tickets.
That's simply because the odds remain the same if you buy just one ticket for a game, no matter what numbers you decide on.
And although it might seem crazy that Christine won twice, if someone already wins the lottery, the chances of them winning again is exactly the same.
"If someone already wins the lottery, then the chance that the person wins the lottery a second time will be exactly the same as the probability they win the lottery if they had not previously won the lottery before,” Glickman told CNBC's Make It.
"In other words, having previously won the lottery does not improve or make less likely the chance of winning the lottery in the future."
As all the lotteries are independent, it does not matter if you buy a ticket every day or every month, your odds going into each draw are the exact same as everyone else.
Please gamble responsibly. For help, support and advice about problem gambling, call the National Problem Gambling Helpline on 1-800-GAMBLER, 24/7.
Lucy Devine