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A person, obviously, has to be very lucky to win the lottery. Not just a little bit lucky, but astronomically lucky, considering the odds of winning a large cash prize. So what are the odds of someone winning a cash prize of $1 million not once, but twice? Then, what are the odds that could happen in the same drawing?
The reason for those questions is because a man named Paul Corcoran from Fitchburg, Massachusetts did exactly that. Not only did he have the winning ticket for the Wednesday, July 9 Powerball drawing. He had two of them.
How did this happen?
According to Powerball.com, Corcoran initially went to Market Basket in Fitchburg and bought a ticket for seven Powerball drawings. Then, thinking that the final drawing on that ticket had already occurred, he went to Country Farms in Leominster and bought another Powerball ticket.
Amazingly, both Powerball tickets he bought ended up matching the white ball numbers of 5, 9, 25, 28, 69 and red Powerball number 5. Corcoran told NBC 10 in Boston that he chose his own numbers. So he ended up winning not one, but two $1 million prizes (before taxes, of course).
He claimed his two $1 million prizes at the Massachusetts State Lottery and in a massive understatement, told officials there that the wins feel good, but that he did not have any plans for his winnings yet.
Bought a ticket for seven Powerball drawings and thought the final drawing on that ticket had already occurred so he purchased another multi-draw ticket that also included the July 9 drawing đź’° Hitting for $1 MILLION X2!
Winning tickets were purchased at Market Basket, 130 Water… pic.twitter.com/6qdcQKAfCo
— Mass. State Lottery (@MAStateLottery) July 16, 2025
What are the chances?
As for those odds, winning the $1 million prize by matching the five standard numbers without matching the Powerball number has odds of one in 11,688,054, according to the lottery. The odds of winning the jackpot with all six numbers are one in 292,201,338. So the chances of winning the jackpot twice, with the exact same ticket on the same day? It’s got to be somewhere around one in a billion, right?
The lesson here is, if you want to win a big lottery prize there appears to be just one of two ways to do it. One, you can purchase lottery tickets with every possible number combination on them. Or, two, be ridiculously lucky, like Paul Corcoran.
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