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Indiana couple wins $50,000 prize for 2nd time playing same game
Indiana Lottery: Indiana couple wins $50,000 prize for 2nd time playing same game
An Indianapolis couple beat the odds when they claimed their second $50,000 Lucky 5 Hoosier lottery prize.
Elinor and John T. Phillips of Indianapolis claimed the prize Thursday, less than five years after Elinor Phillips won $50,000 on the same game in 2004.
Elinor Phillips said her heart fluttered when she heard the numbers for the Feb. 24 evening draw.
Phillips said she and her husband play Lucky 5 Evening regularly.
The retirees plan to use their winnings to pay down their mortgage. They say they will continue to play.
The Lucky 5 game offers two shots at the $50,000 prize for $1. Than Nguyen of New Castle and Oliver Matthews of Columbus hold the record for most Lucky 5 wins with four wins each.
AP
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10 comments. Last comment 9 months ago by .
Deep in the Woods of Texas United States Member #68953 December 22, 2008 328 Posts Offline |
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Todd:
Can you recruit them for the site?
 ....let's see their system..lol.
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it"
by: Henry David Thoreau
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Sunny California United States Member #64286 August 8, 2008 150 Posts Offline |
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Seriously. 4 times each? Thats impressive.
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Idaho United States Member #56982 November 21, 2007 3226 Posts Offline |
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Congrats to them! They must feel very lucky. "No one remembers the person who almost climbed the mountain, only the person who eventually gets to the top."
ThatScaryChick
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United States Member #15415 May 10, 2005 323 Posts Offline |
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Congrats Mr & Mrs Phillips!
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Chief Bottle Washer New Jersey United States Member #1 May 31, 2000 17060 Posts Offline |
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Todd:
Can you recruit them for the site?
....let's see their system..lol. Maybe they're already here. 
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United States United States Member #68752 December 16, 2008 124 Posts Offline |
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Congrats to the winners.....
Mega is Up $ 212M yeah.
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NY United States Member #24178 October 16, 2005 1739 Posts Offline |
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Todd:
Can you recruit them for the site?
....let's see their system..lol. In a game like that it doesn't take a working system to have repeat winners. The odds are about 1 in 376,000. If everybody who won played one ticket per day for the next 4 years they'd each have about a 1 in 258 chance of winning again. Assuming that 258 people had already won when these people won for the first time, it's all but certain that one of them would have won again by now.
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Deep in the Woods of Texas United States Member #68953 December 22, 2008 328 Posts Offline |
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In a game like that it doesn't take a working system to have repeat winners. The odds are about 1 in 376,000. If everybody who won played one ticket per day for the next 4 years they'd each have about a 1 in 258 chance of winning again. Assuming that 258 people had already won when these people won for the first time, it's all but certain that one of them would have won again by now. thank you for your mathematical information,
my comment was in "Fun".
 
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it"
by: Henry David Thoreau
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Wandering Aimlessly United States Member #25708 November 5, 2005 4379 Posts Offline |
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I am always happy for people like this, so why do I feel so nauseous?
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mid-Ohio United States Member #9 March 24, 2001 10551 Posts Offline |
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In a game like that it doesn't take a working system to have repeat winners. The odds are about 1 in 376,000. If everybody who won played one ticket per day for the next 4 years they'd each have about a 1 in 258 chance of winning again. Assuming that 258 people had already won when these people won for the first time, it's all but certain that one of them would have won again by now. Why wouldn't a system help with this game? The player has to pick 5 numbers out of a pool of 36 similar to any other lottery game and players get two plays for a dollar and can play twice a day. If system players like playing Pick3 for a $50 box hit, they should love this game with a $50,000 top prize. * What happens most *
* will most likely happen again *
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