Reuters: Oddly Enough: Virginia woman wins $1 million - twice in same lottery

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Virginia woman wins $1 million - twice in same lottery Apr 24th 2012, 12:52 Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Retired Illinois couple claims huge lottery prize Wed, Apr 18 2012 Local Pennsylvania paper wins Pulitzer for coach sex-abuse scandal Mon, Apr 16 2012 School workers in Maryland claim part of record lottery Tue, Apr 10 2012 Who are the lucky 3 to share record $656 million U.S. lottery? Sat, Mar 31 2012 UPDATE 1-Record $640 mln U.S. lottery has at least one winner Sat, Mar 31 2012 Analysis & Opinion The Virginia tunnel gold mine What the Loebs can learn from the Pulitzers Related Topics Oddly Enough » Lifestyle » U.S. 100 dollar notes are seen at a bank in this picture illustration in Seoul September 20, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Lee Jae-Won Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:52am EDT (Reuters) - A Virginia woman found out on April 7 she won $1 million in a lottery drawing. And then she won again. Virginia Fike of Berryville, Virginia, had the good luck to buy not one but two lottery tickets from a truck stop that both turned out to be $1 million winners, matching five of the six Powerball numbers. Lottery officials presented her with a $2 million check on Friday. Fike said she found out that she had won - and won again - while sitting in a hospital room with her mother, according to a statement distributed by the Virginia lottery. "I saw a scroll on TV about there being two $1 million winners," she said. "I looked at my mom and said ‘Wouldn't it be funny if it was us?'" She said she planned on using the money to "take care of my parents" and pay bills. For selling the tickets, the lottery awarded a $20,000 bonus to the Olde Stone Truck Stop. To win the full Powerball jackpot, which currently stands at $131 million, a ticket must match the numbers on all five white balls in the drawing, plus the red Powerball. The $1 million cash prize is awarded for a ticket that matches the five numbers on the white balls, in any order. The odds of winning $1 million? One in 5,153,632.65. The drawing takes place every Wednesday and Saturday night. "I just love the jackpot games and I play when I can afford it," Fike said in the statement. (Reporting by Paul Thomasch; Editing by Greg McCune and Jackie Frank) Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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