A man in the United States won the $ 250,000 lottery jackpot by buying a ticket using the number he saw while sleeping. Alonzo Coleman, from Virginia, bought tickets from Corner Mart, a report on the local WWBT NBC-Afiliation.
Mr Coleman bought a ticket for $ 2 and was surprised after winning a quarter of a million dollars. “Hard to believe!” He told Lotere officials, according to WWBT. “It’s still not hitting me!”
Mr Coleman was looking at the lottery on television on June 11 when he saw that the order of numbers on his tickets – 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 – was a match. There is a bonus number 19 too but the first six points helped him win large amounts.
The lottery results were announced on Thursday.
Coleman, a retirement whose age was not released, told Lotere officials that he had dreamed of the previous victory number.
Virginia Lottery released a photo of a happy Mr. Coleman posing with a giant check of $ 250,000 and “I AM A AM AR GRUMPY OLD MAN”.
According to Newsweek, Virginia Lottery holds a lottery on Wednesday and Sunday and three grand prizes is $ 1 million, $ 500,000 and $ 250,000. Further saying that the possibility of winning the top prize is 1 in 3.8 million.
There are many stories about the big victory that has shocked the world. Like a truck driver in Michigan who crashed into a $ 1 million jackpot after initially thinking that he had won $ 2,000.Fox2 Detroit said in a report that the man told the lottery office to give him a prize money as a number of at once at once around $ 693,000 than 30 annuity payments.