The strange stroke of luck offered New Yorkers the unusual chance to win twice in a single day with the same numbers - though no one picked the same 5 numbers both times.īodega workers said customers in the Big Apple were thrilled by the long-odds drawing, with many players winning smaller cash prizes. “The numbers were properly vetted and verified on site.” The same five numbers were drawn twice in a single day for the New York Lottery’s Take 5 five games on Thursday. Lottery spokesman Brad Maione said the stunning results were not a mistake. Those odds are much, much longer than hitting Saturday’s $800 million Powerball drawing, which is a mere 1 in 292 million. “That’s 1 in 331 billion chance,” Harvard statistics professor Mark Glickman told The Post. The results of Thursday’s drawing for the game amazingly yielded the numbers 18, 21, 30, 35, and 36 during both the midday and evening drawings - the odds of which experts put at more than 1 in 330 billion. The same five numbers were drawn twice in a single day for the New York Lottery’s Take 5 five games Thursday - leading to a jaw-dropping display of astronomical odds, lottery reps and experts said Friday. The rise and fall of an economist who beat the system to become a 14-time lottery winner How a $3.3M lotto-winning couple plan to spend their winnings ‘Lottery lawyer’ who stole $107M from winners for yachts, vacations gets 13 years for mobbed-up scheme Scammer posing as Powerball winner Edwin Castro promises $800K ‘donation’ of record-breaking $2B prize
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