A FORTUNATE man has scooped a third jackpot lottery prize in under 11 months from hedging his bets on the exact same numbers.
The 52-year old mystery man from Maryland has recently taken home yet another win of £40,000 and now plans to spend some of his cash on a holiday.
The Charles County local said his success was down to five crucial numbers (4-8-5-4-8), which he has repeatedly used to scoop his big wins.
This month he was astonished to find the numbers worked for a third time while playing Pick 5 at a local convenience store.
He said: "It hit last year and it hit again".
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"My wife said, 'Let's play this number,' and we keep winning with it."
The extraordinarily lucky punter said he plans to continue using the numbers in the hope of adding more cash to his bounty.
"I play the lottery all the time. You never know. You can't win if you are not in it," the lotto-lover said.
Following his winning streak, he hopes to use his sudden earnings to take his wife on holiday.
Meanwhile, another lottery winner has described the incredible moment he called his friend to let him know they had scooped a whopping £16million jackpot.
The staggering lotto prize was claimed by a group of eight golfer friends in their 40s in Western Australia but one winner just couldn't believe it.
Also in Australia, a sleepy woman originally thought she had won only £269 in the Easter draw before waking up to tearfully discover it was 1000 times better than that.
