Luck is so capricious that you can never know for sure where, how, or when, a person who plays the lottery will hit that winning combination that provides a good amount money to him.
We all have that illusion when we play, but usually we do not pay much attention to signals that come to us and that can affect the final outcome.
A curious fact happened a few years ago, specifically in the US PowerBall draw dated March 30, 2005. It has been many years, but the 110 people who won the second category prize in that draw, will not forget in life.
These 110 anonymous people were lucky enough to get a second category prize, which at that time had established a payment of $100,000 , and could be multiplied by 5 if they played the Powerplay ball.
The winning combination was written inside of the fortune cookies that are usually served in Chinese restaurants.
Of the thousands of cookies manufactured and that inside contained the invitation to play that combination, only 110 people decided to bet on it, and the fortune goddess rewarded them with an important prize.
The PowerBall distributed 19.4 million dollars.
Initially and by the extraordinary of this case, the MUSL (Multi-State Lottery Association) suspected that having so many winners could be an alleged fraud or a failure in the transmission of electronic data.
After the claims of the winners and appropriate investigations carried out by the agency, it was admitted that it had been a stroke of fortune and they proceeded to the payment of the prizes.
In that raffle there was a single winner of the first category that won the 25.5 million of the jackpot with the combination 22 , 28, 32, 33, 39 and 42 as the powerball.The lucky 110 people who bet on the combination 22,28,32,33,39 and 40, thus failing them the number 40, of having also guessed the number 42, of the 110 winners, 21 of them would have pocketed the amount of 1,159,000 dollars, and the remaining 89 at the rate of 231,818 dollars, something more than double of those who actually won.
