Vietnam veteran wins lottery six times on intuition

A Vietnam seasoned walked into a liquor store successful Massachusetts connected a acold December time relying connected his intuition. 

He played the lottery, similar helium had been doing for implicit 20 years.

His intuition told him: don't conscionable bargain 1 ticket, bargain six. And don't conscionable usage immoderate numbers, usage the nonstop aforesaid numbers connected each ticket.

As luck would person it, Raymond Roberts won connected each six tickets, earning a lump sum of astir $2m (£1.6m), positive 20 yearly payments of $25,000. 

The winning numbers Mr Roberts chose were a cautiously concocted operation of birthdays and day dates. He had utilized them connected different lottery tickets, connected different days, but had drawn a blank.  

The veteran, of Fall River, 50 miles (80km) southbound of Boston, picked up his winnings connected 15 December.

So what does helium program to bash with his unexpected riches?

For starters, he'll bargain a motorcycle, according to the lottery. 

Lucky for Life was the crippled Mr Roberts played, and so that's what immoderate mightiness telephone him. 

According to the rules of the game, the likelihood of winning conscionable the $25,000 per twelvemonth for beingness prize are 1 successful 1,813,028.

Residents of Massachusetts walk the astir per capita connected lottery and scratch-off tickets than anyplace other successful the US.