A LOTTERY player managed to beat odds of one in 292 million to win twice in the same draw.
Ben Baker bought ten tickets from his local grocery store and managed to scoop a total of $300,000.
Incredibly, he managed to match four of the winning numbers plus the Powerball number in the Virginia lottery on two of his tickets, which would have won him around $50,000.
But because he had spent an extra dollar on each ticket for the Power Play, that meant he tripled the winnings to $150,000 per ticket.
“I was really lucky!,” said Baker, from Covington, Virginia, after his win.
He told the lottery that he's going to use some of his winnings to improve his home and save the rest of the cash.
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The odds of matching all six numbers to win the jackpot are 1 in 292 million, the Virginia lottery revealed.
The overall odds of winning any Powerball prize are 1 in 25.
The winning numbers in that drawing were 10-16-18-40-66, and the Powerball number was 16, said the Virginia Lottery.
Meanwhile, pensioner collecting a huge lottery prize was gobsmacked when she bought a scratch card and scooped an even bigger jackpot.
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The 70-year-old from Newark, Delaware, bought two instant game tickets from a petrol station and was stunned when she found out she had won $100,000.
She said it was her biggest win since she started playing Delaware Lottery seven years ago.
Along with a pal, she went to collect her winnings from the Lottery Headquarters in Dover.
To celebrate, the woman bought herself three more scratchcards from a shop.
But to her delight, she uncovered an even bigger jackpot of $300,000 – bringing her incredible winnings to $400,000.
It comes after another lottery winner scooped their second prize in as many weeks.
The big winner, from Grand Strand, in South Carolina, won a $40,000 prize and then a $3million one in the space of 11 days.
He had bought both Mega Millions Quick Pick tickets on July 16 and on July 27 from a Murphy USA gas station in Myrtle Beach, the South Carolina Education Lottery said.
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