The Best Mistake of Your Life: Viral Story of Virginia Lottery Winner Confusing Powerball with Mega Millions

2024-04-11 19:48:00

The best mistake of your life! The lottery fever in all 50 states of the United States is crazy. There is no home that does not try to tempt luck, draw following draw, week following week. After all, fortune might smile today on anyone like Miriam Long, a Virginia resident who managed to take home no less than US$1 million following making a curious mistake when buying a Powerball ticket. What exactly happened to this woman and how does her story relate to Mega Millions as well? Find out in this note that Gestión Mix has prepared for you.

Although the chances are slim, thousands of people, if not tens of thousands, chase luck at lottery houses, always hoping that today might be the day, that this time they do have the winning Powerball numbers. or Mega Millions.

Both companies have awarded dozens of prizes that exceed billions of dollars and although the jackpot does not burst every weekend, it is clear that 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.

Thanks to a notable mistake, Powerball changed the life of a Virginia woman (Photo: AFP)

SHE CONFUSED POWERBALL WITH MEGA MILLIONS: THE STORY OF THE WOMAN FROM VIRGINIA WHO WON 1 MILLION DOLLARS

Miriam Long is the great lucky one in this story. And although it may seem hard 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.

This is Miriam Long, the million-dollar Powerball winner (Photo: Virginia Lottery)

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.”

WHAT NUMBERS HAD MIRIAM LONG GET RIGHT?

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 following 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 IS STILL NOT COMING OUT

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.

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT POWERBALL

WHAT IS POWERBALL?

Powerball is a multinational lottery that originated in 1988 in the United States. It is played in 44 US states, as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands.

THE LUCKY POWERBALL NUMBERS THAT HAVE BEEN REPEATED THE MOST IN RECENT YEARS

In order to try their luck, it is normal for draw players to analyze factors such as the number of times the jackpot appeared in a certain city, the approximate time between winners, etc. Taking into account that the interstate lottery has two very clear elements during it: the white balls and the red ones, what are the numbers that have been repeated the most times?

THE LEAST LUCKY POWERBALL NUMBERS

According to statistical data from Lottonumbers, among the numbers that have appeared the least in the 1,010 Powerball drawings held from October 7, 2015 to March 2024 is 13, but what else?

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