5117 HAS HIT AGAIN IN VIRGINIA!!! I WONDER IF STEVEN GRANGER HIT AGAIN. I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS NUMBER COMES IN THE SAME FORM TWICE A YEAR. SEE BELOW FOR HIS STORY
Fourth major lottery prize hit by playing 20 tickets with same number
"It's been a good number for me."
That remark by Steven Granger of Henderson, North Carolina, may be the understatement of the year.
He selected the number combination 5-1-1-7 on 20 tickets in the Virginia Lottery's May 22 Pick 4 day drawing, and they all won. Each of his "exact order" tickets won $5,000 and each of the "50/50" tickets won $2,700, for a grand total of $90,800.
That would be amazing enough, but it's only part of the story. Even more astonishing is the fact that Mr. Granger has done this twice before in Pick 4 and once in Cash 5.
On April 12, 2009, he won $90,800 when 5-1-1-7 was drawn and on May 10, 2009, he won $65,800 with that same combination. On September 28, 2005, he won $900,000 with nine winning Cash 5 tickets.
"I just play for fun," he said as he claimed his latest prize. "It's kind of a hobby. I've been really lucky."
However, now he has a problem. He's running out of wall space to hang all of the over-sized winner checks he has collected from the Virginia Lottery.
Mr. Granger, who works in real estate, bought all of his winning tickets at his favorite store: Bracey Mini Mart, 3230 Highway 903 in Bracey, Virginia.
Pick 4 drawings are held daily at 1:59 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. The chances of matching all four numbers in exact order are 1 in 10,000