Archibald Herring, A Seattle resident, only just missed having half of a top prize lotto win. He failed to correctly guess just one number. Just one ball was all it took to stop Archie from a top prize win of one hundred and thirty million dollars to a match five prize. However, Archie is in no way depressed. The fashion he used to pick his lotto tickets means that he still arrived home with a great prize of one million seven-hundred and 50 thousand dollars!
Archie played a five number combination across 10 different entries netting him much more than merely one win. Herring claims luck had nothing to do with his win. He claims to have used his own unusual lotto technique to help him select the correct numbers. This technique helped procure him his one million seven-hundred and 50 thousand dollars win.
After allowing for tax payments Archie was given a large one million three hundred and twelve thousand dollar cheque by Washington Lottery's office in Seattle when he obligingly handed over his 10 winning entries one mild Wednesday afternoon. Whilst Archie says he would have loved to land the big win and a share of the one hundred and thirty million dollars he is well pleased with his smaller combined win. I'm sure you would be too.
Evidently Archie has been using a lotto technique in an attempt to predict the winning numbers for awhile now. By trailing winning numbers and specific sequences Archie states that he can pick winning numbers in future draws.
As a regular lottery participant, playing twice a week, Archie has been sure that he would eventually get a big win.
The lottery plan used by Archie involves utilizing the identical five numbers on all entries played but selecting a different Mega Ball number for every entry. Usually Archie plays just five entries using this technique. However, as there was a large top prize on offer the week he won Archie decided to play 10 tickets instead of his normal 5.
The numbers 10, 23, 28, 39 and 51 turned out to be to be really lucky for Archie. In all 10 sequences Archie had just missed the Mega Ball number 5. If any of his tickets had included the Mega Ball number Archie would have landed himself 50% of the jackpot prize of $130,000,000 jackpot prize but sorry to say he missed out on that. However his winning tickets still got him a nice one million seven-hundred and 50 thousand dollars in combined wins.
Archie is not the only individual to have landed a big win due to the use of a lotto system. there are places like how to win the lottery which discusses the system that has already been used by over 131 people to beat the lotto.
Is Archie's win down to fortune or did his technique play a role in it? If you want to know how likely you are to win on the Mega Ball draw then think about the fact that you have a one in 130 million chance of winning the top prize. With odds of 2.6 million to one against accurately selecting five numbers you may be thinking that Archie has used up all the good fortune he has and then some.
With such remote odds against winning one match five prize perhaps Archie did use more than mere luck to select 10 match five wins!
According to Lee Lee of the Washington Lottery no-one in that state lottery, or any other one in the States, has ever had a big win playing the lottery Archie's way.
For people who are concerned, the winning jackpot ticket was sold in Washington, Ga for a sole claim on the jackpot prize of 130 million.