{"id":977042,"date":"2022-02-05T01:54:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T01:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/05\/virginia-man-wins-52000-80000-lottery-prizes-two-months-apart\/"},"modified":"2022-02-05T01:54:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T01:54:39","slug":"virginia-man-wins-52000-80000-lottery-prizes-two-months-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/05\/virginia-man-wins-52000-80000-lottery-prizes-two-months-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia man wins $52,000, $80,000 lottery prizes two months apart"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Feb. 4 (UPI) —<\/span> A Virginia man who won $52,000 by buying 104 identical tickets for the same lottery drawing tried the same strategy two months later and won $80,000 with 160 tickets.<\/p>\n

Jalen Taylor of Charlottesville told Virginia Lottery officials his lucky streak began when he bought 104 $1 tickets bearing the numbers 9-6-0 for the Nov. 18 Pick 3 drawing from the Food Lion store in Charlottesville.\n<\/p>\n

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Each of Taylor’s tickets earned a $500 top prize, winning him a total jackpot of $52,000.<\/p>\n

“I had a feeling,” Taylor said. “When you get a feeling, just play!”<\/p>\n

Taylor’s lucky feeling struck again when he visited the local Harris Teeter store and bought 160 tickets for the Jan. 10 drawing. He again matched all three numbers, 5-4-2, earning a total $80,000.<\/p>\n

Taylor said his winnings will go toward investments and savings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feb. 4 (UPI) — A Virginia man who won $52,000 by buying 104 identical tickets for the same lottery drawing tried the same strategy two months later and won $80,000 with 160 tickets. Jalen Taylor of Charlottesville told Virginia Lottery officials his lucky streak began when he bought 104 $1 tickets bearing the numbers 9-6-0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":977043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}