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Placing his eggs in a single basket proved fruitful for one Virginia man who bought not one, however 20 profitable lottery tickets with the identical numbers.
Alexandria resident Fekru Hirpo bought 20 equivalent tickets, all with the four-digit mixture of 2-5-2-7, from a gasoline station in Arlington, in response to a Wednesday information launch from the Virginia Lottery.
The fortunate winner instructed lottery officers he made a spur-of-the-moment choice to go all in on the identical ticket for the “Choose 4” recreation.
Hirpo stated “he doesn’t normally play with so many tickets containing equivalent numbers, however one thing simply instructed him to do it,” in response to the information launch.
Every ticket gained him a prize of $5,000 for a complete of $100,000, in response to the discharge.
Hirpo has “no instant plans” for his winnings, says the lottery.