Kentucky Cash Ball player wins 5 jackpots totaling $1 million

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ayenowitall — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 07:02:55 GMT

Q: First of all, why in the heck would someone buy 5 lines of the same numbers?A: A person would probably do that in an attempt to win five times the amount of money. In this case, it worked. It's not an uncommon strategy. I've even done it myself in various types of games. I've seen people play the same P3 or P4 number straight twenty or more times in the same drawing. Q: And why would someone buy 5 lines of the same numbers on the day they were picked?A: Actually, the numbers were drawn on the... [ More ]

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JMorenoMars — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 04:48:08 GMT

First of all, why in the heck would someone buy 5 lines of the same numbers? And why would someone buy 5 lines of the same numbers on the day they were picked? Seems fishy to me.....

Kentucky Cash Ball player wins 5 jackpots totaling $1 million

Lottery Post — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:14:17 GMT

Santa Claus arrived two days late for a lucky someone who stopped by the Thorntons store at 5318 Preston Highway on Monday and paid $5 for five plays on the Kentucky Lottery's Cash Ball.In what lottery officials described as a relatively unusual maneuver, the person picked the same numbers on all five plays: 11, 14, 21, 24 and, for the Cash Ball, 22.Those five numbers were drawn Monday night, earning the lucky player a whopping $1 million from the five $200,000 top Cash Ball prizes.The odds of m... [ More ]