Two friends bought identical lottery tickets with numbers and their luck made them a winner.
The anonymous friends, from Goolwa, south of Adelaide in Australia had never thought that one day they will become millionaires.
The two had their selected numbers (12, 21, 10, 2, 1 and 42 with supplementary 13 and 40) and each week they bought a ticket hoping to win one day.
Their luck worked and they both won AUD $1.67million (£895,000/USD $1.14m) when they put on the X Lotto.
One of the winners said: “My mate thought it was his turn last week, but it was actually mine and I’d already put it on.”
“It’s incredible that the week we both end up with a ticket, thanks to a mistake, is the week our numbers are drawn.”
“And if you knew the two of us, the more likely scenario is that the week our numbers are pulled out of the barrel is the week we’d both forget to buy a ticket.”
According to 9News, the two have decided to quit their jobs and now they are retiring.
One girl named Callie Rogers won a whopping million dollars at the age of 16. She was working as a shop assistant at the local Co-op in her home town of Workington, Cumbria at the time of her win.
It changed her life but for all the wrong reasons because now she is calling on the government to raise players’ legal age to 18.
Callie is now 32 and she wants the age limit to be 18 after her freebie made life hard. She is happy that cash has gone and called on ministers to raise the lottery gambling age limit to 18.
She told the newspaper: “I am the happiest I have ever been. You are only 16, with all that responsibility. At that age, you can get the best advice ever. But you are not in a position to listen. I was too young.
“Overnight I went from carefree child to adult. All these years on, it still gets dragged up. Even when I go for job interviews, I am thinking about it.
“I suffer from such bad anxiety when I am going to meet new people. It preys on my mind, what a new partner’s family will think of me, or even new friends. I still get abuse just because of who I am.”
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