Whatever the odds are of winning two six-figure lottery prizes within a few days of each other, an extremely fortunate woman in Delaware recently beat them.
The 70-year-old woman at the center of a viral story coming out of the Delaware, benefited from a stroke of good fortune when, last month, she went to a gasoline station and bought two lottery scratch-off tickets. One of them was a $100,000 winner, according to a press release from state lottery officials.
Officials said the woman waited about a week to redeem her ticket and claim her prize at the lottery’s headquarters in Delaware’s capital, Dover.
She celebrated on her way home by buying three more lottery tickets – and one turned out to be a $300,000 top prize winner.
The woman, who asked the lottery to not publicly release her name so she could preserve her privacy after the windfall, had made the fateful trip with her best friend. Neither could believe the good fortune at play.
“We just sat there in disbelief,” the woman said. “It was absolute insanity.”