A woman from southwestern Ontario, Canada, won the lottery for the second time in her life. Claire Garner, 66, recently won $75,000 Canadian dollars (about $55,000 US dollars) in the game called ‘Instant Cashingo,’ Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp officials said.
Garner also won a C$250,000 (US$184,000) prize in the same instant lottery game in 2017.
“I said, ‘I won again.’ He (her husband of hers) believed me right away,” Garner told lottery authorities.
The retiree plans to save most of her new fortune.
Claiming two lottery prizes is rare, but mathematically it’s not as far-fetched as it sounds.
And it is that buying several tickets for a single lottery draw increases your chances of winning.
However, regularly buying lottery tickets for, say, different weekly draws will not improve your chances because the odds for each are independent.
The odds of winning the lottery a second time will be exactly the same as if you had never won the lottery before.
In other words, having won the lottery before does not improve or make the chance of winning the lottery in the future less likely.
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