The most charming mistake of your life! Lottery fever in the USA continues to grow in its 50 states, and this time there was a winner in Virginia. It turns out that a woman managed to take home no less than 1 million dollars after making a curious mistake when buying a Powerball ticket. What exactly happened to this woman and how is Mega Millions related to this story? Find out in this note that Management has prepared for you.
Although the chances are slim, there are still players who look for the lucky break of their lives at lottery houses. And in the United States there are two large chains in this area: Mega Millions and Powerball.
Both companies have awarded dozens of prizes and jackpots that exceed one billion dollars, and although it is not a prize that comes out every weekend, it is clear that these amounts of several zeros can come out from time to time.
Don’t you believe us? Well, just know the peculiar story of Miriam Long, the lucky million-dollar winner from Virginia who confused Powerball with Mega Millions.
Miriam Long is the great lucky one in this story. And although it may seem difficult to believe, she obtained a whopping seven-figure sum thanks to a mistake when obtaining a lottery ticket in the town of Virginia.
According to media outlets such as People, the woman purchased a Powerball ticket when she was actually looking to buy a Mega Millions ticket. The event occurred last month and it was already confirmed that she won 1 million dollars thanks to her mistake.
The anecdotal part of this story is that Long was keeping an eye on the Mega Millions jackpot at that time, which had increased to $893 last March. It was there that she decided to get a ticket from the aforementioned lottery chain.
However, when making the purchase, the woman mistakenly pressed the wrong button on a CVS machine in Blacksburg. The result was a Powerball ticket and, according to Miriam Long, “the best mistake of my life.”
According to press reports, Long managed to match the first five winning Powerball numbers. They went 10-17-20-39-44.
However, he stopped short of selecting Powerball 16 using the machine’s Easy Pick feature, which picks numbers at random.
“My heart was pounding,” Long told officials after realizing he had won $1 million during the March 18 drawing.
As we well know, the company also rewards the store where the winning tickets are delivered. For this occasion, Powerball awarded a bonus of 10 thousand dollars for selling Miriam Long’s ticket.
The Powerball jackpot has continued to grow since it was last won on New Year’s Day.
According to CNN, no one matched the winning numbers on April 3, meaning the prize for the next drawing on April 6 has increased to more than $1 billion, with an estimated total of $595.1 million.
It should be noted that the current jackpot is the fourth largest in the history of the game.