A man has scooped nearly £80,000 on the lottery, after using his late wife’s grave number.
Leonard Beach received the winning ticket for free as part of a lottery company promotion.
The Quic Pic ticket was a bonus for players who spent £3.15 ($4) or more on any draw game between 11 April and 12 May.
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With the Quic Pic ticket, Beach won £78,683 ($100,000) on the ‘Mass Cash’ draw on 11 May.
The lucky winner, who comes from Boston in Massachusetts, US, initially bought a ticket for ‘The Numbers Game’.
He told lottery officials that he regularly plays ‘The Numbers Game’ with a specific set of digits related to his late wife.
Beach explained: “It’s her grave number.
“That’s the number I play every day.
“I play it faithfully.”
He added that he had just visited his wife’s grave minutes before he got the winning ticket.
He acquired it at the Super Liquors store on Truman Parkway in Hyde Park, Boston.
He was one of three people to win $100,000 as part of Massachusetts State Lottery’s ticket promotion.
The other two winners were named as Stephen Foley from Stoughton and Luiz Santos from Framingham.
The three stores that supplied the winning tickets will receive a £786 ($1,000) bonus, as reported by Need To Know.
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