Man Wins Lottery Three Times in One Night

SYDNEY, Australia - For a Sydney grandfather, it was third time lucky — and second time and first.



The 60-year-old bought three tickets at three separate stores — all with the same numbers — for a Saturday night Lotto draw and was among 20 winning tickets for the top prize, lottery officials said Monday.


The three tickets scooped a total of 494,326.44 Australian dollars (US$346,028). Had he only bought one ticket — as he originally planned — he only would have won A$183,083.86.


The winner, whose identity was not released, bought one ticket and then went on vacation. Fearing that the ticket he purchased wasn't for Saturday's draw, he got a friend to buy another. Then when he got back from vacation, he was concerned the friend hadn't bought the right ticket, so he bought a third just in case.

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A man handed the clerk his numbers and got his ticket. His list of numbers was not in numerical order, and the man was confused when he saw that the numbers on his ticket were different--he thought he'd gotten the wrong numbers. So he bought another ticket with the same numbers--same result. Just to see what would happen he changed one number and bought one more ticket.

You guessed it--his numbers won. Not only did he have two of the three tickets with the winning numbers, but he also got big bucks for having a ticket with five of the six numbers.