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(CNN) Sometimes you just gotta go with a feeling.
Kwame Cross bought 160 tickets this month for a Virginia Lottery Pick 4 game . And he played exactly the same four-digit combination for every ticket: 7-3-1-4.
That combination, on December 5, proved to be a winning one, bringing Cross an $800,000 payday.
"I saw an address in a TV show, in the background, and for some reason it stayed with me," Cross, of Dumfries, told Lottery officials , according to a news release. "I just had a feeling."
Those numbers hit the Pick 4 top prize of $5,000, which was multiplied 160 times to earn Cross the huge payout. The chance of matching all four numbers in exact order is 1 in 10,000, according to the Virginia Lottery.
restore_democracy on December 15th, 2020 at 21:07 UTC »
Tomorrow: 800,000 matching lottery tickets
LATourGuide on December 15th, 2020 at 20:39 UTC »
Can we talk about the Virginia Lottery slogan apparently being "we're game" ?
Mrk2d on December 15th, 2020 at 19:41 UTC »
Kwame Cross bought 160 tickets this month for a Virginia Lottery Pick 4 game. And he played exactly the same four-digit combination for every ticket: 7-3-1-4. That combination, on December 5, proved to be a winning one, bringing Cross an $800,000 payday.