USA / Man buys 160 lottery tickets with same 4-digit combination, wins ₹5.9 cr in US

A man who had purchased 160 lottery tickets with the same four-digit combination of '7314' ended up with 160 winning tickets in a US lottery. The combination was drawn for the $5,000 top prize, and he ended up winning $800,000 (around ₹5.9 crore) with 160 tickets. "I couldn't believe it. I had to check like 82 times," the man said.

Vikrant Shekhawat : Dec 13, 2020, 08:34 AM
Virginia: A Virginia man said he had "a feeling" about some numbers he copied down from a TV show that led to his buying 160 tickets for a single lottery drawing -- and winning $800,000.

Kwame Cross of Dumfries told Virginia Lottery officials he bought 160 tickets for the Pick 4's Dec. 5 night drawing from the Roselyn Sunoco in Arlington and all of the tickets bore the same number combination: 7314.

"I saw an address in a TV show, in the background, and for some reason it stayed with me," he told Lottery officials. "I just had a feeling."

Each of Cross' 160 tickets won a $5,000 top prize in the drawing, for a grand total of $800,000.

"I thought, 'This can't be real!'" he said. "I had to pull over and check like 82 times. It feels surreal!"

Cross said he hasn't yet decided what to do with his winnings.