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If luck is a real thing that exists, and that is certainly debatable, there is one thing that is for certain: it is definitely not spread out evenly among all of the people in the world. How else can one explain a man in North Carolina winning a $1 million prize playing the lottery four years after winning a $2 million lottery prize?!
That man, Asheville resident Bobby White, first won $2 million playing a $20 Premier Cash ticket in November 2021. Apparently not wanting to share any of his luck with the rest of us, Mr. White visited the Red Dot store in in Mars Hill, North Carolina and purchased a $30 Max-A-Million scratch-off ticket.
He ended up winning another million dollars on that lottery ticket.
According to the North Carolina Education Lottery, White visited lottery headquarters on Wednesday and chose to forgo the annuity of $50,000 over 20 years and instead chose to take the lump sum of $600,000, which, after required state and federal tax withholding, meant he walked out with $430,503.
It’s called a ‘lottery’ for a reason
As one person wrote in the comments (echoing the thoughts of a plethora of lottery players around the country), “It defies all logic that I have played ever since the lottery started and my best is $1,000 3 times all at the same location. I don’t understand why I haven’t won a top prize yet people like Mr. White literally have it given to them and twice on top of that. I want someone to tell me how this is fair. I’ll pull up a chair and give anyone who can do this my full undivided attention.”
Answer: it’s not fair. The fact is, some people simply have all the luck in the world, leaving nothing left for the rest of us.
For further proof of that, earlier this year, a man in Massachusetts accidentally bought two identical Powerball tickets and ended up winning $1 million twice.
Last year, a woman in Massachusetts won a $1 million prize twice in the span of 10 weeks.
And in 2023, a Brooklyn man won $10 million a little over a year after already winning $10 million. That same year, again in Massachusetts, a woman who won a $1 million prize in 2006 returned to collect another $25 million lottery prize. A few months before that, another woman in Florida won $1 million playing a scratch-off lottery ticket — the second time in two months that she won $1 million playing that same lottery game!