Single mother's simple error earns her $14 million lottery prize

May 6, 2013, 1:28 pm (30 comments)

California Lottery

At the intersection of Fate and Lotto, Thuan Le made a very fortunate error.

The California single mother of four is thanking her lucky stars after mistakenly slipping an extra dollar into the self-service Lotto machine at her local CVS store in Mission Viejo.

That superfluous dollar wound up getting Le the SuperLotto Plus ticket holding the five winning numbers — 5, 33, 25, 46, 32 — plus the Mega number, 26, selected randomly in the April 24 drawing.

In all, Le won a $14 million jackpot.

"Thuan Le is a hardworking single mother of four sons," according to a release from the California Lottery.

"She is also very excitable. In fact, when she ran her SuperLotto Plus ticket through the terminal and realized she had won a $14 million jackpot, she ran screaming out of the store."

Le reportedly plans to buy a house, travel, and visit her parents in Vietnam with the proceeds.

According to the lottery website, Le and a friend would normally go together and buy their lottery tickets at the same time. But on that fateful April day, Le went by herself to purchase her usual $4 worth of Powerball and $1 in SuperLotto Plus.

"She accidentally put $6 in the self-service terminal and bought her tickets," the lottery reported. "When she realized she still had $1 in credit, she thought, 'I might as well get another SuperLotto Plus ticket.' That sixth ticket was the winner."

It had been approximately a month — and eight unsuccessful drawings — since anyone picked all six numbers to win the SuperLotto Plus jackpot when Le won the grand prize.

The odds of winning are about 1 in 42 million, according to the California lottery.

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Comments

helpmewin's avatarhelpmewin

Good Story Congrats to her spend wisely Lovies

dallascowboyfan's avatardallascowboyfan

Congratulations to the winner....

DC81's avatarDC81

Congrats to her, now time to get the hell out of California.

" Le went by herself to purchase her usual $4 worth of Powerball "

Is two weeks, three or four drawings really enough to call that usual? Skeptical

lele100

For goodness sakes!  I wish my errors would turn into millions lol!  Congrats to the mother of four sons!!

savagegoose's avatarsavagegoose

i want to start making similar mistakes.

HoLeeKau's avatarHoLeeKau

Quote: Originally posted by savagegoose on May 6, 2013

i want to start making similar mistakes.

I make them once in a while, but mine have never paid off like this one.

maringoman's avatarmaringoman

Quote: Originally posted by DC81 on May 6, 2013

Congrats to her, now time to get the hell out of California.

" Le went by herself to purchase her usual $4 worth of Powerball "

Is two weeks, three or four drawings really enough to call that usual? Skeptical

I saw that and wondered the same thing. Exaggeration seems to be the in-thing in 2013.

I am happy for Ms Le. She can cut down on the time she works and spend it with her sons

rdgrnr's avatarrdgrnr

Great story.

Happy for her.

God Bless her.

Piaceri

Congrats to Thuan Le and her family. White Bounce God Bless America. US Flag

Artist77's avatarArtist77

I love stories like this!!!! It sounds like she was very thrifty in her playing as well. One can "accomplish" a lot in life by being at the right place at the right time.

wizeguy's avatarwizeguy

Congrats to the lucky lady!!

whiteballz's avatarwhiteballz

Quote: Originally posted by DC81 on May 6, 2013

Congrats to her, now time to get the hell out of California.

" Le went by herself to purchase her usual $4 worth of Powerball "

Is two weeks, three or four drawings really enough to call that usual? Skeptical

yeah, California only started selling Powerball less than a month ago so how can that be her usual? Sensationalism at it's best right here. Thanks fox news!

Piaceri

Quote: Originally posted by whiteballz on May 6, 2013

yeah, California only started selling Powerball less than a month ago so how can that be her usual? Sensationalism at it's best right here. Thanks fox news!

I didn't know that fox news did the California Lottery publicity stories. Hit With Stick

whiteballz's avatarwhiteballz

Quote: Originally posted by Piaceri on May 6, 2013

I didn't know that fox news did the California Lottery publicity stories. Hit With Stick

fox news is given credit at the bottom of the article.

the original story is right here: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/05/single-mother-simple-error-earns-her-14-million-lottery-prize/

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