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.
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.
Wow, that's awesome. Congratulations to the winners.
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.
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.
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!
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?
Congrats to them! I bet they are happy that they both bought tickets.
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?
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"!~
i agree i looked high and low for those numbers and no luck... and like you said the super cash is a 1/39 game
Man, wife both play wrong numbers and win jackpot?
Will he quit? That $350,000 is before taxes, remember. That's maybe $215,000 that they will each see. If they invested it all at 5%/yr, they would have an income of approx $21,500/yr.
Unless they are already getting social security or a pension, that isn't enough for two people to retire on. Don't forget, that $21,500 is earned income and will be taxed also, so they won't have all of that to live on either.
It will certainly help out, but you need a minimum of $500,000 to invest in order for one person to quit working and live off the income IMO. And that isn't a swanky retirement. You would still be watching your pennies.
The govt pretty much makes sure you can't retire from lottery winnings unless you win MILLIONS.
According to a google search she is a CPA.
He works for her i doubt either will quit working.
Their total take is 700K.. even so I wasn't serious that they should quit on that amount, I wouldn't either, but you can just imagine them late one night in bed.. "Honey?" "Yes Dear?" "I'm thinking of resigning." "You better not! I'll bop you with a rolling pin." "OK Dear, see you at the Office tomorrow." "Yes, get some sleep, I'm giving you a performance review tomorrow morning!" "About my work?" "No, the other thing!"
madison.com/tct/news/stories/301697
"they held two of only four winning tickets sold in Wisconsin for Saturday's SuperCash drawing, turn out to have the other two as well."
"each of those tickets paid out $350,000. Then they brought in the other two winners, which now raise the total they have won to $1.4 million."
"they had been playing the same numbers for several years."
"After taxes, the Adamsons will pocket $995,000."
Perhaps because she had a strong feeling for the numbers he picked. Jackpot games are more than "statistics". We had a guy here in the last year win Supercash with one ticket and numbers he picked. He felt so strongly about the numbers that he bought the ticket three times during the day (I think it was three times) in different retailers outlets. So because the jp wasn't paramutuel, he won on every ticket. Something close to a million bucks.
You can do it with one ticket and one set of numbers just as easily as using the "shotgun" approach. That's been proven time and again.
After all, there is only one set of 6 numbers drawn, no matter how many tickets you hold.
They just announced on the radio news here that the couple actually had purchsed four winning tickets (2 tickets each) so they grossed $1.4 million witht he four tickets, and will get about $955,000 after taxes.
The man is also talking to an attorney to get a patent on the formula he uses for determining the numbers. The wife was interviewed and she said that even with his formula, he knew he'd have to play the game for years before he'd even come close to winning. It simply doesn't work every time.
I imagine our Lottery Commission is having a fit right now. LOL !
I just heard the same report on FOX news that they had all 4 tickets. The trick is, they still only won ONE time for the jackpot. Put it this way, what percentage of regular players use systems, say 10 percent which is just a guess. But that means for every 10 winners one of them was using a system. It does not say if that system HELPED them win. The only way to prove any system is with an honest backtest. And also, once they make this system public (is that what happens now with the patent?) the Wis. Lottery may determine what biased the numbers and want to change it very soon, maybe go computerized or something or switch ballsets differently. They should have not MENTIONED their system and just kept playing to win again, but of course they want to make additional $.
Maybe they put out a misleading set of numbers to confuse would-be system authors?
The article I saw said it was Wisconsin SuperCash, and the numbers were: 1, 5, 8, 13, 24 and 26 from the August 16 drawing.
Wtg
They won the jackpot four times. THis particular game is not parimutuel. You can have up to seven winning tickets in one drawing, and each will win $350,000. Once it goes beyond seven winners, the jackpot starts getting parimutuel and is divided among the number of winners. (I forget the formula) So if you play, and no one else wins on that day, but you do, you can actually buy 7 tickets and potentially win over 2 million dollars.
I guess because the odds of winning the jackpot are over 1.6 million to one, they felt they would never get "burned".