Texan may be world's luckiest lottery winner
With fourth win, elusive woman has won $20.4 million, mainly in scratch-off games, since 1993
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msnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated 7/7/2010 11:53:23 AM ET
The luckiest person in the world?
Look no farther than Joan Ginther, at least when it comes to winning the lottery.
Since 1993, the 63-year-old woman has won four windfalls on the Texas Lottery, each time winning more than $1 million for a total of $20.4 million.
The most recent win that has everyone talking: $10 million in a scratch-off game called “$140,000,000 Extreme Payout.”
Not only has each ticket been bought in Texas; two of the tickets have been bought in the same store, right in Bishop, Ginther’s town of birth where neighbors say she comes back every so often to visit her father and, apparently, try her luck.
“This is a very lucky store,” Bob Solis, the manager of Times Store, told the Corpus Christi
, Tex.,-based Caller Times as news about the most recent win began to circulate Friday. The owner said the store sells an average of 1,000 tickets a day.
4 Texas Lottery wins, $20.4 million
Ginther’s first windfall came 17 years ago, when she won $5.4 million in a “Lotto Texas” game. She opted to have that sum paid out annually over 19 years.
With fourth win, elusive woman has won $20.4 million, mainly in scratch-off games, since 1993
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msnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated 7/7/2010 11:53:23 AM ET
The luckiest person in the world?
Look no farther than Joan Ginther, at least when it comes to winning the lottery.
Since 1993, the 63-year-old woman has won four windfalls on the Texas Lottery, each time winning more than $1 million for a total of $20.4 million.
The most recent win that has everyone talking: $10 million in a scratch-off game called “$140,000,000 Extreme Payout.”
Not only has each ticket been bought in Texas; two of the tickets have been bought in the same store, right in Bishop, Ginther’s town of birth where neighbors say she comes back every so often to visit her father and, apparently, try her luck.
“This is a very lucky store,” Bob Solis, the manager of Times Store, told the Corpus Christi
, Tex.,-based Caller Times as news about the most recent win began to circulate Friday. The owner said the store sells an average of 1,000 tickets a day.4 Texas Lottery wins, $20.4 million
Ginther’s first windfall came 17 years ago, when she won $5.4 million in a “Lotto Texas” game. She opted to have that sum paid out annually over 19 years.
