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His and Hers: Wisconsin spouses win identical lottery jackpots
His and Hers: Wisconsin spouses win identical lottery jackpotsPosted: 8/19/2008 8:23:54 PM  This couple won't have to argue about how to spend their lottery winnings. That's because the Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, husband and wife each won their own $350,000 jackpots in this weekend's SuperCash state lottery.
Lottery officials said Verlyn Adamson bought his winning ticket at a Mineral Point gas station and his wife Judith bought hers from a convenience store in Barnevald.
Verlyn Adamson is an accountant who says he's a big fan of math puzzles. He claims he developed a secret formula that has helped him make money in the lottery over the last 20 years, although he says his winnings have been small compared to this jackpot.
He said his wife, who is his boss at work, had asked if she could play the same numbers he played.
The winning numbers were 1, 5, 8, 13, 24.
Thanks to Tenaj for the tip. Source: AP
United States Member #10921 January 23, 2005 773 Posts Offline |
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He married his boss, or did his wife hire him? Does he go home and complain about his boss or is he afraid to becase that IS his boss??? Will he quit now or will she quit, or both? His boss has to ask HIM for permisson? Was he playing Lottery on company time? Color me confused!
Your homework assignment, if you choose to accept it, is to figure out what is special about that set of numbers vs. the draw history. By "make money" meaning more than spent before this one? I'd love to see a backtest of the system he used, what it picked and what came out up to now.
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Indiana United States Member #49185 January 7, 2007 1157 Posts Offline |
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Wow, that's awesome. Congratulations to the winners. Gonna win.
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United States Member #10921 January 23, 2005 773 Posts Offline |
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PS- one important question, where the heck did "49" come from, they only go to 39.
What were really the numbers, and on what exact date? I cannot seem to find that sequence
anywhere in the recent draw list for WI SuperCash.
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The winning Megabucks numbers for Saturday, August 16th, 2008 were:
8-10-11-19-21-49
Suppose somebody got numbers and games mixed up when reporting.
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MI United States Member #55299 August 31, 2007 633 Posts Offline |
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His system? A box that has been split into whatever number of sections needed, each with a piece of corn in it and a chicken.
Anyway, congrats to both of them! With odds like 1 in 175,711,536 how can I lose?!
You can't predict random.
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NY United States Member #3206 December 28, 2003 37 Posts Offline |
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He said his wife, who is his boss at work, had asked if she could play the same numbers he played
I bet this was done on company time...and it makes no sense at all, if he played them why would she want to?
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Idaho United States Member #56982 November 21, 2007 1869 Posts Offline |
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Congrats to them! I bet they are happy that they both bought tickets.
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mid-Ohio United States Member #9 March 24, 2001 9376 Posts Offline |
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He claims he developed a secret formula that has helped him make money in the lottery over the last 20 years, although he says his winnings have been small compared to this jackpot.
Finally someone who claims to have a secret formula for winning the lottery actually won. I wonder if we'll see him winning even larger jackpots? * Trying is the first step toward failure *
homer J. Simpson
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United States Member #10921 January 23, 2005 773 Posts Offline |
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I have algorithms too! Most of them secret. I did win the Pick 5 all 5 numbers a few years ago but not near 350K. Please find out what day they won and what the numbers really were, and I will when I have time figure out if I can what kind of system might have been used. Also would be interesting to know how many winners total on that drawing, in case other people had the same "Secret"!~
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