It’s not unusual for people to guess the winning number in a lottery but an individual could get one, two, or three winning tickets in a lifetime. But fate had something special in store for Kwame Cross of Virginia, who won a payout with all 160 tickets, which he bought when he was feeling lucky. Simply based on a strong hunch, the man chose the same number for all the tickets and beat incredible odds to walk away with $800,000.
Trusting his Gut
Cross, a small business owner from Washington, D.C., bought the 160 tickets in 2020, for the popular Pick 4 game. While at the Sunoco gas station in Arlington, he decided to play the same four-digit combination: 7-3-1-4 for each of his tickets. Speaking to the lottery officials , he explained that he saw the numbers in the background of a TV show, and “for some reason” it just stayed in his mind.
“I just had a feeling,” he was quoted as saying in the official press release. On the day of the draw, each of Cross’s tickets won the top prize of $5,000, which was multiplied 160 times into a six-figure reward.