A TV show changed the life of a man who bought a lottery ticket in South Carolina, as he decided to follow a strategy he saw on TLC’s ‘Lottery Changed My Life’ and won $100,22.
The lucky man, whose name has not been revealed, played the lottery for three months , spending $25 each week. In the first week he won $500, and as the weeks went by he continued to accumulate winning tickets.
The past 25 in May, when playing a Powerball ticket, he won the grand prize of $100,000, in the that it was his seventh week playing the lottery.
According to WCVB, the man first thought he only won $50,000 by matching two numbers.
However, after his wife checked the ticket, they saw that the man had matched four of the five white balls and the red Powerball, so his prize was raised to $100,000.
While Kwik Fill in Hana Han received a commission of $1,000 for selling the winning ticket.
The winner told South Carolina lottery officials that he didn’t even know how to play Powerball: “I didn’t even know how to play Powerball,” he said.
The lucky guy bought a New car with his prize, and commented that he intends to continue playing with the strategy that made him a winner, so he will continue to buy lottery tickets during the three-month period.
Carolina Lottery Site del Sur indicates that the odds of matching four white ball numbers and the red Powerball are 1 in 913,129.
‘Lottery Changed My Life’, the program that the man used as a guide for his winning strategy, shows the lives of ordinary people who win life-changing amounts of money while playing the lottery.
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