ANNAPOLIS, Md. (BNN)-- A Maryland "Power Couple" won not one, however 2 $1 million prizes on lotto tickets by accidentally replaying the very same Powerball numbers two times..
According to a press release from the Maryland Lottery, the couple from Anne Arundel County found out on April 2 that 2 $1 million winning Powerball tickets were cost one of their local lottery sellers for the April 1 drawing.
Later on that day, they learned they were the ones holding those winning tickets!
When there's a huge jackpot, the husband of the couple told the Maryland Lottery that he had a few Powerball tickets with number choices that he likes to replay.
" I just play when it's over a billion dollars," he stated, according to the release.
When the jackpot increased to $1 billion for the April 1 drawing, he said he grabbed a few of his tickets from prior illustrations and checked out 7-Eleven to attempt and win the huge reward.
At the time of buying the tickets, he didn't recognize that he had a few duplicate tickets from previous drawings, according to the release.
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On April 2, while checking his lottery tickets, the other half first saw that he had 4 winning Powerball tickets worth $4 each. He recognized he had a ticket that matched the first 5 numbers in the April 1 illustration, however not the winning Powerball.
" I looked at it and I went to the Powerball site," he stated. "I saw the numbers and I said, 'No!'".
According to the release, that's when he called his other half to inform her they had actually won $1 million.
" We had our sobbing moment," he informed the Maryland Lottery. "Twenty minutes after that, when I put the ticket down, I returned to the other tickets.".
" He joked about it," his wife stated. "He stated, 'I still have tickets to go through. What if I have the 2nd million-dollar ticket?".
That is when he understood he had mistakenly acquired two of the very same tickets, both $1 million winners.
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" It was astonishing," the dad of two said. "I had no idea I doubled it.".
According to the release, the couple plans to invest the prize money.
An individual who won the April 6 $ 1.3 billion Powerball prize stepped forward Monday to claim the reward, Oregon officials said.
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