INDIANAPOLIS — 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.
Todd:
Can you recruit them for the site?
Seriously. 4 times each? Thats impressive.
Congrats to them! They must feel very lucky.
Congrats Mr & Mrs Phillips!
Maybe they're already here.
Congrats to the winners.....
Mega is Up $ 212M yeah.
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".
I am always happy for people like this, so why do I feel so nauseous?
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.