Updated: 7:02 AM PST, December 16, 2020
Kwame Cross took his chances on Dec. 5 by purchasing 160 tickets with the exact same number combination.
A Virginia man followed a hunch and bought numerous lottery tickets with the same numbers, and it proved to be a genius move. Because the tickets, all with the numbers seven, three, one and four, made Kwame Cross $800,000 richer.
Cross took his chances on Dec. 5 by purchasing 160 tickets with the exact same number combination for the Virginia Lottery Pick 4 game.
"I saw an address in a TV show, in the background, and for some reason it stayed with me," he told Virginia Lottery officials in a press release. "I just had a feeling.”