Lottery Pick

The odds of predicting the correct order of six balls chosen out of 50 in a lottery game are 15,890,700 to one. So most would think Maureen Wilcox would be ecstatic for having correctly picked the winning numbers twice in January 1998. But she wasn't. That's because Wilcox correctly picked the winning numbers for a Rhode Island draw, but she had picked them in the Massachusetts lottery. Later, when she picked the winning numbers for the Massachusetts lottery, it just so happened that she had done so with a Rhode Island ticket. End result: no winnings for Wilcox.