Newspaper printed the wrong draw.
For a moment it seemed like their world had changed.
Jim and Dorothy Sprague believed that they had become millionaires overnight when matched six numbers in the Colorado Lottery.
They began celebrating and thinking about the new life of luxury they would be living with the $4.3m jackpot.
But their hopes were dashed a few hours later when they realised the local newspaper in which they checked their numbers had printed the wrong draw.
The couple had chosen their numbers for the draw last Saturday and checked them the following day in the Pueblo Chieftain newspaper.
To their surprise, the numbers on their tickets matched exactly the six that were in the local newspaper.
'I woke up and found out we were millionaires,' Jim Sprague told NBC station KOAA.
Mr Sprague, from Pueblo, Colorado, called his children and excitedly told them that he had won the jackpot in the Lotto and Cash 5 draw.
The family no doubt had started dreaming of their new life - and how to spend the millions they believed they had won.
But a few hours later after checking the numbers again they were politely informed that they had actually matched the numbers from the Friday Matchplay draw which had been printed again by mistake.
'We had told my son and my daughter, and we were getting ready to tell our other kids, but we found the mistake, that it was wrong,' Sprague said.
'It's a good thing that I didn't talk to too many people.'
The couple said that they are able to laugh about the mistake and will continue playing the lottery. Mr Sprague said that he hopes to find the right numbers 'one day'.
The newspaper published a correction saying the error was down to 'misinformation and an oversight.'
SOURCE: dailymail.co.uk
April 18 2011
The long wait has paid off.
In debt for P500,000, housewife wins, claims P3.1-M lotto pot.
For 16 years they've been awaiting lady luck to smile on them while their housing loan payment arrears kept piling up, until it ballooned to a whopping P500,000.
That was then, this is now.
On April 16, this seemingly desperate 55-year-old housewife and her husband, a security guard, won P3.1 million in the April 16 draw of Lotto 6/42 and claimed their winnings on April 18.
The couple was becoming desperate because they could lose their house to the bank because their housing loan payments were piling up. Their arrears today stand at P500,000.
The housewife, placed a mere P10 bet for one combination on April 16 for 6/42, hoping and keeping in mind that their house could be forfeited anytime.
A stroke of luck, finally came with her bet based on her family's birth dates, hitting the drawn numbers, 10-29-04-08-24-27.
Source: MB
By EDD K. USMAN
