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On one of those things that we all wished happened to us, a 61 year old man that has been playing the same numbers for 30 years finally won the lottery and won 18.41 million dollars, he explains that each time he placed the bet he thought about changing the numbers but he decided against doing so each time, there is no explanation of where the numbers come from but I suppose they must mean something, otherwise it would be difficult to believe he could keep playing the same numbers over and over again.

Would you be able to do it? Playing the same numbers over and over again like this? Because I know that I will not have the patience to do this during 30 years.


https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/michigan/2021/08/25/michigan-lottery-man-who-played-same-numbers-since-1991-wins-18m-jackpot/

I've read that this is the 'secret' for winning the lotto. Betting the same number over and over again until you get lucky and hit the jackpot. And surely did it happen to this man. But as far as the patience go, Lol, not sure if I can do it though. Day in, day out going to lotto outlets bet on the same number for the last 20 years.

For sure, those numbers means something to him, just like the rest of us who bet on our birthdays, our lucky numbers etc..

If it was me I would have changed numbers a couple of times and definitely will not repeat a certain number twice. I believe something must have motivated him to keep back that number up till his 61years. Congratulations to him his fate worked out something he has always hoped for because it's his believe for that very number that kept him playing till the day he won.

On the forum once discussed a big win by this strategy.

I rarely participate in the lottery, so no matter how much I wanted to win I definitely could not repeat the path of this lucky man. I hope that now he will be able to meet old age with dignity and help all his relatives.

A drive and belief over the years made him never give up placing the same number. This is a testament to how numbers that are often considered lucky give a profit at the right time. It even took so long every day to go to the lottery to make sure the numbers were holding.
For me it's not about the amount he gets, but the firmness of the value contained in it, how luck and belief led him to a sweet result.

To be honest, this strategy is very difficult and it is not easy to just hold on to one number for a long time, unless all the old man does is make a promise to his wife before he dies. Because in lottery, lucky numbers are quite classic.
Meanwhile, when we put numbers on the lottery, it is not enough to bet once or twice with different numbers, but randomize the numbers at each point.

My father had the same belief or even most of my relatives when it comes to lotto. Even got a jackpot from swertres after so many tries though its not that big, but still it got the jackpot and win.
There are some instances also that he (my father) always bet the same number over and over again until one day he misses to bet and then it shows as the jackpot's lucky numbers and he regrets it.

While I am very happy for him, it really needs to be put into the context that there will be hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people who do the same thing throughout their life and will never come close to winning the jackpot. You really have just as much chance of winning by picking a random set of numbers each week, because each draw is absolutely independent of every other draw that has taken place. It would be interesting to see how much he would have been sitting on if he decided to invest that small amount consistently over time - obviously nowhere near the jackpot but I've a feeling he would have made tens of thousands of dollars instead.

This story is similar to the previous one, by placing a lottery using his birth number for years and finally getting it too.

I think it's just luck and coincidence, because of his persistence not to change his actual birth number randomly, all the numbers will have something in common over the years.
If you are determined to stick with your favorite number for years even 20 years which in my opinion is a very long time, there is a good chance that your favorite number will be the same at the right time.

I had also read somewhere that this was a good lottery strategy and that its disadvantage was precisely that it could take many years without winning, but considering that lottery is a game of luck I think it makes more sense to use this strategy but not create expectations and not have much hope, the person can do this strategy while taking care of life normally and can also be participating in other games and businesses and if one day win the lottery would be good, but if you don't win too, no problem

If he do bought tickets once per day in all days on that 30 years time then I could say that it did really pays off and most likely with those number combinations is personally been choosed neither its an anniversary or combinations of birthdays or totally just personal point of hands and stick with it.

It is really hard to maintain numbers which had been consecutively lost up and imagine 30 years of betting isn't something that people could able to reach off and with due to frustration then
even having 1 month straight loss would already be hard thing. How much more on 30 years?

This man had really that dedication on hitting up the jackpot even though its not a guarantee to hit on his lifetime but once your lucky then theres no specific time needed.

You're right it's just a classic case of survivorship bias. If we were able to count the number of people doing the same thing like him during 20 years and not winning the jackpot prize we would certainly find the same proportion of losers as in people changing their lottery numbers every time.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/survivorship_bias.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

But the question is, how much money was spent in those years/decades of betting the same numbers? Lucky for him that before he vanished from this earth, he finally got his luck. At least, enjoy his remaining years without worrying anything. Very few people can stick to this routine and hope that one day, he will get his luck. Definitely, a lot did the same strategy but never saw their luck til they depart from this world.

I have tried this but only good for 1 year and on the next year i never intent to continue as if those numbers wont really be hitting up anytime soon.

30 years waiting time or betting is something not all person could do and lottery tickets arent really that expensive for people to mind off about on how much they could save on.

This hit isnt something that everybody could also get.It is just a matter of extreme luck because theres no time frame neither 1 day hit or 50 years before you could able to hit.

A lot of people do have their own combination of numbers that they bet over and over just like this old man. It's not just him and some died not hitting a jackpot. It could be worth it for him to wait that long. 30 of spending a lottery ticket every day, he should stop after this.

60-year-old man still could enjoy the money and could travel everywhere. My old pa did go to Thailand to Cambodia at 60 so this guy could also enjoy the $18M.

^ That is a possible idea which the number comes from the especially occasion or events and even me, I did this sometime but I can't be able to maintain for a long period of time. 30 years is too long and if the winner bought a ticket every day multiply into 30 years, that is already a big amount. So this is possible and probably the 61-year-old winner had extra money to place a bet every day and can able to maintain it for 30 years. Nevertheless, we can do also what this old man did, but there is no assurance for us until when we will hit the jackpot.

Damn, I don't know how he selected that number but selecting a number and sticking to it forever is good like he did rather than changing the number after a few times of not hitting the lottery.
Imagine if he changed the number then how disappointing it would have been for him.
Keeping that aside I hope he got some good use for the money otherwise he'll just end up gambling them away.

There's another winner or man who do hit up $60M jackpot lottery after playing same numbers for 30 years too.  8)
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/29/man-won-60-million-lottery-after-playing-same-numbers-for-decades.html

This do proves out that there are people who are really that patient enough on taking such step and dedication for them to
bet on same combinations for a very long time.

Not many people can stick to their routine and do this for the next 30 years of their life. Because you have no idea if and when you will hit the jackpot, you are just hoping that your starts will give you luck one day. This situation should not be an inspiration for others because let us admit that in reality, that amount can be used to feed you and your kids if you are in the tight budget. I can agree if you have no problem with your funds and can easily buy a ticket without any problem.

Lmao, I wonder how much he spent on these lottery tickets.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. I highly suggest that nobody repeat what this man has done because he has incurred a massive negative EV and just got extremely lucky. 99/100 times if you play a lottery daily, you will end up not hitting the jackpot even after a long time horizon.

Don't forget that mainstream media tend to give the tiny portion of wins all the coverage and therefore induce survivorship bias.

This might not be luck but more of a strategy in winning once in a lifetime lottery.
Most of the time I was thinking, If you're betting in a lottery you're like saving your money to the lottery company and earn everything "IF" you win. But If you're not, you're actually giving out free money.

In this case, 30 years before winning the lottery is no joke. This requires a lot of patience, consistency, and dedication to hit those combination.
I have calculated, If the amount of $18m equates the amount of money he spent everyday to buy the tickets. But no, he actually made a good profit out of all those tickets he bought for 30 years.
If you're saving money for 30 years to reach $18m, you need to save at least $1,600+ everyday.  Tickets are like $30-$50 anyway.

So lets presumpt and i dont know if this is a Powerball, Megamillions or Lotto 47.Basing off with the draw schedule which is average of 2x per week and if he had stick out on using same combinations and payment (also changes)
but lets presume that it is fixed. So if there are 52 weeks in a year then that would be $36 x 52 = $1,872/ year x 30 years = $56,160 which i could really say that it is really worth of the time and money they've spent.
This is something that you have no doubts if you are in losses because it does able to cover up your expenses on past 3 decades.

After reading this feat of taking the same number for 30 years is insane, the first thought that went into my mind is that how much money he might have burned taking the lottery for the past 30 years. After reading the article i assume it is $1 but how many he spent for that $18 million jackpot.
What ever it may be the article looks like an advertisement for the lottery :D.

When it comes to lottery then i dont really believe nor consider about some sort of strategy because any results could be random and it is just talking about odds on hitting the jackpot.

So here's the odds:
The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are one in 302.6 million and the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are one in 292.2 million, according to Lottery USA.

Source: https://www.jpost.com/international/michigan-man-wins-big-by-studying-previous-lottery-numbers-676203

It is just this man is really lucky on betting lottery even though it do almost cost a half of lifetime.

With your computation I think I will also do the same, with how he trust the winning combination even it took him 30 years the wait still worthy as he's going to enjoy he's retirement with a huge amount of money, sometimes when luck really permits things to happen for you. It's going to change your life for good.

Hoping that he will use the money the right way, not the same with those people who just enjoy the money in a short span of time.

30 long years, sure is a long wait, for him to keep his faith in those numbers, although already old he knows what he'll do with the money that is why he opted for a one-time lump sum, he knows that time is now short for him, might as well do what he wanted to do there's is no information on the winner but at that age and with that kind of patience I'm sure he is matured enough to decides what's best for his money.

It's not easy to keep up with that numbers for a very long time, it's a combination of faith and patience and his story is another great example that there is a reward for being patient.

He considered that as his lucky number, and it pays it all right now I imagine how much money he already spend on Lottery for 30 years, I can’t do this honestly such a great commitment. Fortunately, he’s still young (a senior) but still, he can use that money for whatever he wants to buy and got to, congrats to that lucky guy!

For 18 million dollars? Yeah, I’d have the patience  :D
Besides, it is easier when you realize that by playing the same number over and over you somewhat increase your chances of winning, as there’s a probability that a certain number will hit someday, but if you do different numbers, you risk missing that event. By doing the same all the time, on the other hand, you’ll never miss it. So if you follow this rule, breaking it and choosing another number would simply be irrational.

So, this is truly pure luck that sides with someone who has played very patiently and in a very long period of time.
30 years is not a short time. I can't imagine playing gambling during that time and with the same number.

I personally do not include people who are always lucky with things like this. So I personally won't do this, especially we don't know what amount and when we will win.

This isn't an easy thing, because we won't be able to play on a dice with a specific number for few consecutive rolls. There is difference between a dice roll and lottery, however both requires patience. In such a means I'm quite surprised by his patience to play on a single number and his patience have rewarded him. He's not the one to have such patience, there might be more and more following the same principle. Now he have come to light through his winning.

That he is a lucky person and we can't sure if it will happen to us. He has a different story and we also have our own. Maybe because he patiently waited for that time and spend millions of dollars as well. It couldn't be called as he deserves it but purely it was his lucky day and a lucky number for that day.

I certainly don't think this was a good idea, I dare not to do that but instead to run a good business maybe I could get more.
I'd try the lottery for almost a year and have nothing to get, so I stop and look for another.

Yeah you do have the patience and the money to spent on tickets but do you have the time on going to those outlets on buying tickets on everyday basis or just few days of the week?
It might be simple as it looks but when you are a person who just been forced on doing bets because you've seen others been winning then it turns out for this activity to be boring.
Passion is indeed bad when dealing with gambling but you wont really make it that far if you arent really eager or dedicated on what you do have to reach on something thats
 in your mind.

A common tale in the lottery to win, stick with your bet until the end.

I can do a 30-year lottery betting but not sticking to the same numbers. The reason is, I just don't want to spend extra time picking specifically what numbers should I bet on especially if that will involve several batches.

As always, once I enter the lottery station, will get a card, slashing the lucky pick for random numbers, pay for it on the cashier, then hope for luck.

Nope. That's about taking care of his numbers for so many years. I know that there were older folks than me that still does that to lottery and they're too consistent with it.

But unlike this guy, luck is with him and did managed to see his taken good care numbers have given him the fortune of his life.

Hopefully people don't fall into the trap of believing this stuff occurs regularly and go out and get lotto tickets on a regular basis themselves.

Lotteries are probably the worst game that you can play because they carry the absolute worst RTP you can imagine. Some of the lotteries (actually, most of them) have house edges of 50+%, which means that for every $1 you put into a lottery ticket you are expected to get less than 50 cents back.

I would rather spend it on other forms of entertainment, or heck, even sportsbetting/dice/casino games that return more to the player.

Even if it's a lottery and comparing the lottery with dice isn't balancing in this case.
The lottery can have more than a million combinations of numbers and million lotteries but sticking to 1 number for 10+ years and hitting that number is crazy, you've to believe in the number first that it will hit someday otherwise you'll run out of your life trying to hit a lottery by choosing the same number but not hitting it.

Luck is the greatest factor on why someone do hit up lottery and basing up on the odds or chances on hitting combinations then i could say that our entire life time isnt really that sufficient
on hitting something which odds are way too almost close to impossible it is just these people do able to hit when they are still alive and its record breaking considering on how
long they've been maintaining that number and continous to make bets on using up the same combination.I was really amazed on their dedication.

I would have given him the consolation prize for using the same number for the past 30 years and make him happy  :D. Not sure whether anyone could pick the same number for 30 years and finally winning a jackpot is simply awesome. Majority will not spend your time taking tickets let alone taking the same digit for your lifetime expecting them to win.

My grandfather is like that and he passed that behavior to my parents everytime they are betting on the lottery.

Nothing wrong with the habit and no effect on RNG. It's just that, that routine is good for others as their own way of attracting luck by sticking and being loyal to their picks as they believed their efforts will soon be rewarded.

That also applied to other picking number games.

If your problem will be about the patience, my problem will be on the bankroll. Looking at the attached image of the lottery ticket, it cost him $36. Spending $36 per day for lottery ticket is a huge amount for me obviously and it is not the amount I can afford to lose in single day since my monthly salary wont be able to cover it. I would not even dare to spend $15 per day for lottery ticket.

Of course, the odds of winning lottery are high, but people tends to stick and believed that they can beat the odds.


I agree with you, but then again, there are people who are more willing to take that risk on lotteries because of the huge windfall. It might happened once in a lifetime and as a human being, we take that huge risk as long as you have extra money on your pocket to bet $1 with the same numbers for many years.

I'm not really a fan of betting on a lottery but I do know people around me that used to bet on the same numbers that they inherited from their parents or they simply called "a well-care lottery number" of them. Well,I do believe that there's nothing wrong by doing such thing but I do only concern about how long would they wait to have a chance to win such huge price from lottery. I mean does the money that they could win in future could cover up their daily bet spent on lottery what exactly I mean is that if we would sum up the long time or the number of days multiplied by their daily bet on lottery does their lotto winning money is enough to covered the long time daily spending of a lottery bettors?

I have known particular people, even family and friends, who stick to their lottery number combinations all their lives. Their combinations are mostly made up of numbers taken from their family members' birth and other significant dates. They maintain it for as long as they can.

As for me I don't think I have the determination and perseverance for this. I bet on lotteries every once in a long while. I admit it is something which requires a great amount of luck which avoids majority of the people their whole lives.

Once in a while we hear about these stories, about people continuously taking lottery tickets and finally hitting the jackpot. But we hear only about the winners. I know a few guys who have spent a fortune on lottery tickets and still unable to win any noteworthy prizes. A few of them became financially ruined as a result. But this is the hard reality. You can be lucky and be wealthy. If you are unlucky, then no one remembers about you, and you will spend your time in regretting about the amount that was spent on lottery tickets.

$5 x 30 days = $150 and multiplied by 12 months = $1,800 then multiplied by 30 years = $54,000 which he spent 30 years, that's the lowest count in lottery bets, What's clear is that if he placed a lottery bet in one day where he won $18 million, his bet would be bigger than I calculated.

Overall put up the lottery the money spent was not felt, but he did not realize that 1-2 cars he had sold for it, Your dream lottery bet can be used as a benchmark for the number you want to place, natural events can be a benchmark for certain numbers, for me not.

OP, I agree with you, I may not last for so many years....! To pursue the uncertain.

Geez, playing for 30 years and won the lottery for 18.41 million dollars?
That is a long waiting time for him without him knows that he finally can win that jackpot.
Maybe he trusts his instinct and places the number but for sure, he is a lucky person among the other people.
This teaches us that he has commitment doing the same thing for 30 years and still buying the lottery.
But I am not sure if we can win like that person and I do not know if we can patient for waiting a long time to win the jackpot.

I don't think I have the guts to play with it over again, perhaps in a little while will do but if no results comes up I'd literally move on to other numbers that I could think of. 30 years is somehow a very long time and this grandpa surely be commended for being patient that long. Seems he gonna reap the reward he's been planting on. Congratulations to him!

It's not an easy thing to keep using the same combination of numbers for decades and believe that it will finally give you a win, especially since he has to spend money to buy the lottery ticket, unless it's a free lottery ticket. But for me it's not easy to follow, especially for decades by continuing spend money and then expecting something uncertain because this is only based on luck, looks like a fool especially if don't win it at all.

I used to do this actually, but not playing that kind of lottery, since the only one we had before is sweepstakes, where you can only pick the tickets, not really the numbers. Then I used to pick the same "pick 4" numbers every single draw (about 2/3 times a week). Stopped after a few years finally after always hitting consolation prizes.

Fairplay to the man. He's the ultimate DCA gambler lol.

I believe that there is a similar situation but not the longevity of the years but they both bet the same number combination for long years and finally win the jackpot after long time of betting daily.
This is mostly the combination of birthdays or some favorite numbers of the family of the said person in which they will put budget betting same combo day after day.
i use to do the same thing when i was still betting lottery but after spending thousands or dollars for how many years? i finally gave up and forget about lottery until now.
instead the budget for betting in lottery ? i put in Ethereum and now i am holding good chunks of ETH from that said amount.

This is indeed a very rare feat, for a man to consistently play a number for 30 years consecutively, what happen if he couldn't hit a jackpot? meaning all his monies gone, I salute his courage and perseverance, more than 90% of people would have stop playing the lottery  at a certain point in time after several incurring several losses,
Personally I like the idea of playing the same number repeatedly, however do I have the will and motivation to do so continuously? NO. I will be discouraged to stop wasting my hard earn money.

Not on per daily basis but twice a week. In every country or region, lottery doesn't have a daily draw for the same lottery type. Reading the article, the bettor won the Lotto 47 which the draw takes place every Wednesday and Saturday. However, still pricey and I can't afford to take the risk. I'm not sure though if the man is placing bets in any other lotteries. But if yes, it means, it's really possible he is spending a $36 per day bet.

My average spendings in a lottery are just about $5 to $10 per week so I salute that man and his patience got paid off. I'm also amazed that he rarely missed that draw for 30 years so it's not just the money but he really dedicates his precious time to bet on it even he's busy or got some errands to finished.

Congratulations young man, the wait is over!  Finally pays off. It only needs one big win to live like a king. He deserves it. For 30 years he was he is up for it patiently.
He really has something to share for his sons and daughters and it's great timing where people lose jobs and getting scared for what could happen in the future. 18M can do a lot for him and his family.

If there's an informant that has advised me to play same numbers because of the certainty of winning, i may consider it, but on my own without any heads up, i don't think i can even play same numbers for a year without finding the whole process and gambling experience boring.

Thinking of how much he must have lost to playing the same number over the 30years duration. I'd say $18million is good compensation to him.

Can he get over the same number gambling now!

No, that's not the 'secret'. The probability of hitting the lottery jackpot playing the same numbers after 20 years is approximately 0, which is the same probability of hitting the jackpot if you change the numbers each time. What you say are urban legends believed by people who do not understand mathematics.


When I play the lottery, I prefer to change the numbers each time and randomly, because as I explained above, the probability of winning is the same. There are no numbers that give you more probability of winning than others. On the other hand, I have heard cases of people who always played the same combination and the week they didn't play because they forgot, or changed the numbers, those numbers (that they didn't play that week) were the jackpot.

Anyway, the probability of the latter happening to you is also minuscule, but I prefer to stay calm doing the random combination, so if I lose the lottery ticket or something I can't regret thinking that I would have gotten the prize.

Did you read the article? It it said, Lotto 47 play is only $1 (https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/michigan/2021/08/25/michigan-lottery-man-who-played-same-numbers-since-1991-wins-18m-jackpot/), he buys one ticket every day and check numbers before going to bed . 365 days * 30 years = $10,950. That is the amount he has spend. And I think that he has spend even less, because during these 30 years, he has guessed 2-3 number combinations and reduced his expenses with winnings.

If you want to repeat his tactics, you just need to be sure that there will be a lottery that will run for 30 years and dont get bankrupt.

reminds me of my grandfather , When i was a Secondary school  he give me task to make a bet for Him since the lottery outlet is near my school and He presented me to the operator so will allow me to bet for Him.

The combination of number is all His Tax payers number being rambled , but until he died ? never that he made winning the jackpot lol.

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anyway congratulations to this Senior citizen at least he will enjoy the rest of his life spending that 18 million dollars and will finally rest from expecting winning the number combinations .

before , i play the lottery with random numbers but now i have this habit of sticking to a certain number until i hit them all and each of the numbers i pick have a meaning , e.g they can be compose of my birth date , birth year , etc...
 on the story the guy waited for 30 years until he finally win wow but what about his winnings ,  did he still got something if he minus his expense in the past 30 year ? but i guess that doesnt matter anymore but what important is he achieved something memorable .

If it isn't free, I believe he spends a lot of money if you add up all of his tickets. It's extremely difficult to keep your lottery number; I'm not a big fan of the lottery, but I did try my luck once, but I believe I only bought a ticket for a week and then I was done. It is extremely difficult to win on that, but if you are extremely lucky, you could win a large sum of money; however, we know that many people will buy it and try their luck; we cannot predict who will win, but we will still try our luck.

This is a good tale to our younger generation, perseverance  and consistency pays...it might delay to come but trust the process because once it comes it rewarding. it's just unfortunate this reward came through for the 61 year old when his Youthful days are over but am certain it will go a long way probably support his family here and there.

The math is inspiring, applyimg some permutations and combinations it was bound to happen ,and it happened after 10949 combinations

It's the age old debate: New numbers every week, or, the same ones year in, year out in the hopes out of the millions of chances you will strike it big with the winning numbers.

I see in the article that the winner chose to take the $11M one off payment versus the other (tax free) installment payments.  (That's almost as hotly debated, which way do you want your payment??)

The dedication of this man is insane. There should have been quite a lof of "what ifs" in his mind every time he tried to play the same lot, and seeing as he committed to it till he won shows how much he ignores said what ifs. I myself would never make it ngl, I'm pretty indecisive myself after all.
That's the secret though. Luck lmao.

Go for the one-off payment then use that to make your grand kids play the lottery with the same strat ;D (Kidding though, invest in Bitcoin, that could never go wrong).

If the winner is young he can choose to get paid on an installment basis so he can manage the funds in the long term but if the winner is already in his 60 the right decision is to receive it lumpsum so he can do whatever he wants to do on the remaining years left for him and besides he is already mature and can handle huge money responsibly.

It'd be interesting to see if there had been any studies on the ration of age to pay out - the younger, the more likely to receive installments, or, the older, taking a one off payment and heading for the Bahama's for some sex and drugs and rock and roll...

Then again, if you were younger and could take a massive cash-out, then invest heavily in high paying ways, the long term payouts might be worth it compared to the tax hit you'd have to take.

Well done for his patience and perseverance.I am pretty sure I could not do it,I played a few months in Freebitco.in lottery tickets every week bought a lot of them but did not won anything and I was upset and quit.This guy had the patience and perseverance to play the same number for 30 years and this is something not many people can do so big congrats to him.

winning 18 m for 30 year waiting and repeating the same thing. he must really believe in that number. for me I don't really like lottery and maybe I won't be able to be consistent like him. and for his dedication to waiting 30 years to get it all he deserves that prize.

Someone knew how to never give up it seems. Also he was so dedicated to those numbers for so many years and in the end it payed back but I'm sure there are lots and lots of people who are betting the same numbers for more than 20 years so it's still luck. Now , I hope he will retire in peace and live his life without playing the lottery again.

This kind of holding the number is just common because sometimes when you didn't take a hold on that number that time is the one who show up to the roll of the lottery this is the reason why take care of their numbers. This man is so lucky to imagine he hold that number for a long time but i guess it took a lot of money and a lot of try before he wins the huge amount of money still the end of the day i  guess still its a profit and now can enjoy retirement.

damn, awesome perseverance and he deserves it. although choosing the same number over and over again for years or decades is not new it is awesome to see some stick with it for a long time. I am sure we all know that lottery bettors have a "lucky" set of numbers they choose every time they bet. doing this kind of strategy doesn't increase your winning in any way but it is amazing to see someone consistently betting on the same number for over 3 decades. I know for myself that I won't be able to do that.

In a relationship, loyal people are very hard to find.
In gambling, gamblers who are loyal to their number especially in lottery are very hard to find.

I can't imagine myself doing that thing. Being loyal to a set of numbers for 2 decades is just insane. I'm not betting too much on lotteries or other gambling that has numbers in it but if I'm betting then I will not pick on a specific set of numbers and will be loyal to it for a long period of time. Its always be a random set for me. Anyway, congrats to the 61 year old man who won that huge amount :).

I know few people who have the same numbers when playing lotto, its a combination of the special dates of their loved ones (e.g birthdays, anniversary etc.) unfortunately they're not lucky yet to win in lottery. Well for me I prefer random numbers, sometimes I chose the numbers I saw in my dream though it sounds weird.

Well the idea of annuity payments are not bad to secure the future but I want to enjoy my earnings so I prefer the lump sum prize even the amount was lessen because of the tax (and its quite huge). Given the age of the lottery winner, its a good decision for him to get his prize as one time payment since he is not young plus we'll never know what lies ahead, life is short so enjoy the present.

great success story
Playing the same lottery numbers over and over for decades is really amazing

every time I install the lottery I always use a new number. I find it very difficult to stick to lottery numbers and put them up for years
The winner proves that having a strong belief, in the end, will give extraordinary results

I really like this story and i think it is cool that he sticked to his favorite numbers for such a long time and that he was rewarded for that finally, even though i am pretty sure that he would have wished to win the lottery while he was still young. He is still not that old though and has still plenty of time to spend that 18 Million $ and maybe it is even better for him that he did not win this huge amount of money when he was still a young man because he probably would have spent all of it already by now for fast cars and jewelry. I have not played lottery for a long time but back then when i did i always picked different numbers. I don't really think that it your chances are changing whether or not you are playing with the same numbers all the time or stay with the same ones.

Initially, I would not have done this as I would be tempted to at least change the combination of my betting numbers maybe like every after week? But this story that you shared is a living testament that sticking to only just one set of numbers can definitely win you the lottery.

Is there someone good at math that can solve the percentage of winning the lottery of paying 30 years worth of lottery tickets? I am so curious as to how the numbers are but regardless, I wish but nothing but the best to the guy who won! At least, he's already 61 so he could enjoy his retirement before the mandatory 65-year old retirement age.

Thirty years times fifty games (assuming a couple of times a year any player missed putting a coupon into a draw).

1500 games played versus a lottery that has a one in a million chance of winning (could be one in fifty million chance depending on how many balls in a game)

Although the game numbers were played fifteen-hundred times, it's still a (one in a million/one in fifty million) chance that your numbers come up.

Yeah he does but if someone does the math, I think the money that he have used for lottery could've been much better invested in something because at the current rate of inflation, that man could've made him a millionaire in a safer way since investments go up overtime. To be honest, this isn't close to being replicated but we don't know that, we just believed in the odds that was given us, it's not like the 1 in 1 in 1,000,000 odds is placed at the last place right?

Honestly, the lottery habit is still running in my place which is dominated by elderly parents, while young people nowadays bet more at online casinos. And the most unique thing is that the grandparents created their own casino community. I will illustrate how they designed the casino.

Example: 10 parents collect money for a whole month each have to deposit $1 per day, so every month they collect 10 x $30 = $300.

And it should be noted that their casino still uses the conventional system, namely by taking the numbers that have been provided in large bottles at random and the number that comes out is the winner.
The funny thing is, when one parent wins, he will treat all his friends who bet and celebrate the victory.

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Image taken from the linked news in the OP.
Lets do simple math for this lottery winning based on what the old man spend for the lottery ticket ($36).
36*365*30= $394,200 total amount if the old man spent the same amount every single day in 30 years.
Amount he won is $11m so he is in a great profit, but the question is "did he spend $36 only every day during 30 years?"
We do not know the actual fact, but hopefully it is worth his time and money he spent during 30 years waiting and trying.

This kind of patience and resilience can mostly be found in boomers. They are wired hardcore. I'd respectfully say that he was "insane". Because according to Albert Einstien,"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". Lol. Congratulations to him.

Obviously he is not insane because he has been able to prove that Albert Einstein was wrong... I don't know if Einstein had really said that and if he was really thinking that way but he should be very bad at gambling if he was betting like that. Because in gambling, it's the opposite : insanity is betting on the same outcome over and over again and expecting same results.  :D  

Knowing that there's inflation and those early days, the ticket's price might not that been much, or if it was then that's high valued ticket before, and probably it's higher these days. But regardless of how much exactly it was before, he's in profit and wins like this is what makes those lottery bettors to keep going with the usual quote of "just one big win, jackpot".

It's hard to know precisely because besides prices changes along the years, we also don't know how often the drawings have been happening on the last 30 years. As I see right now drawings happen twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 7:29 p.m. So probably this man hasn't been spending money in tickets in a daily basis.

Even though the prize took 30 years to come he is indeed a very lucky man, because it's not that easy anyway to achieve such a big profit. Most gamblers won't be able to hit the jackpot by adopting the same strategy he used. So the rule for gambling keeps the same: just gamble with money you can afford to lose.

I hope the man can finally enjoy his money side by side with his family.

Same rule applies with gambling and investments, use amount you will let go. This man got a happy retirement as he can use all this money to live and enjoy a much better life.

Even it took him to wait for 30 years. Those times and money that he spent are all being paid with a lot of perks that he can now enjoy with his love ones.

Just thinking if this same strategy with combining important dates and keep betting on it till it hits the jackpot?  ;D ::)

Yes I also check that the draw is done 2 times a week for $1 per ticket, michiganlottery also provides a Favorite number feature so everyone can take the same number which is in his favorite list every day. An interesting feature, imagine if I was at the age of 61 years I might forget the number I choose every day without the feature  :D

Is it really needing those things to be that relevant? Of course they had been made on where there are number generators or combination which you can choose and make them as favorite but most

likely on matters like these on where numbers you do personally choose is basing up on your life time events or special days or occasion which you can easily remember without needing on

checking your notes about those numbers that you are constantly betting on. Its just really amazing on this mans dedication to hit even its unsure or not guarantee that it would happen
on his lifetime.

Nah, if you do it almost everyday there's no way you can forget that number, not unless you are having a memory loss problem which is a short term memory problem. I'm having a hard time believing if the story was legit or just part of the trick for most news article doing. But if it's true then it's his luck coming after a long years of repeating the same process almost every day.

And 30 years is a very long time to keep spending money hoping to win using with their favorite number(s).

Exactly, I posted the above response to the OP in the same manner.

I can't understand why he only chose that number and became lucky by continuously betting on that same number, even if there are 1 million total lottery tickets then his probability of winning on the same number he has chosen would be less than 0.1%, but he still won it. It's quite impressive.

Not quite impressive but totally exceptional and you would need all luck in the world before you could hit up a jackpot on lottery considering the odds then it is really close to impossible.
What is impressive here is that man do continously play lottery for 30 years which everyone couldnt really make it of that far.
With lots of combinations then you would really boggle up your mind on changing your number combinations because the previous one had lost and this would
be the primary mindset you do have.

The above calculations are based on the assumption that the game was played daily.  

I would have thought the game play was conducted weekly which would bring your calculation down to 30(y) X 52(w) X $36 = $ 56,160 (give or take - based on the today dollar values for the three game panels played)

Betting for 30 years and finally winning the lottery is something big,at least he never gave up.But betting on the same numbers over and over is insane to have such big faith in your numbers.My parents also play lottery for too many years now but they werent even close once

I'm more shocked that for 30 years, that man rarely missed placing a bet. It becomes a responsibility and a regular routine. I assume that part is exaggerated. When a person says that they are betting on that set of numbers for 30 years, it's not meant on daily basis. He's just doing it for 30 years but the average bet is not consistent.

For example in me, I always bet on the lottery, just a few blocks away from my home, for I think 10 years now but placing a bet maybe twice a month, sometimes more, sometimes less, something like that.

That's right. According to the article, the lottery where that man won is rolling twice a week.

We just don't know if that man is also betting on other lottery tiers making it a daily basis. It makes more cost because he has 3 sets of numbers.

But with this computation, daily or weekly, still an insane amount to spend. That man is even a hardcore gambler compare to the usual gambler.

It's not necessarily boring, as some may think. On the contrary, many people, especially the elderly, are people of habits, they may even enjoy such routine. I know quite a few people that buy lottery tickets on a daily basis, but just for fun, they don't even expect to win anything, but the whole process of doing it has become a tradition and it's their way to cheer up.
Though I haven't seen anyone doing the exact same number, that shows real devotion and deserves respect.

He has big faith in the numbers he is betting for the last 30 years, I doubt if he is counting the money he spent betting on his favorite numbers, he cannot keep up if he is counting, I cannot sustain this for 30 years with the same numbers, yes I bet on the lottery but it's always random because I don't want to have attachments on particular numbers, it will make me a lottery addict if I do.

This is a very challenging strategy and it isn't easy for sure because you'll always be tempted to change your number combination. Holding and betting it for too long needs a lot of patience. I've heard about this news before and I admire that old man. However, it took a long time so he invested his time and capital for that 18 million. Whoever applies this strategy should be ready because it needs a lot of motivation.

The old man's lucky day will take after 30 years? Man! that's an awesome story and only those people like him can do that. It's so hard because when you put the same number as he did and the winning numbers are far from it, you will probably lose your patience at all. I think those numbers were special for him or he got it from someone who is special too. that's why he doesn't forget it and pursue to bet those numbers even though it wasn't winning for the last 3 decades and finally, he won this time and the timing was so good because of the pandemic.

It's a great story, I especially like to play a particular number always, in each raffle that I buy I play, and there may always be a greater possibility when numbers are chosen at random and that they are a large amount, without a doubt According to history, Mr. played since 1991, which means that he took 30 years to win, if we take into account that the draws are weekly, he played the same numbers around 1620 times, and they were a complete series, I think that among all the Odds were very lucky. Only on one occasion have I won and it was with 2 numbers, the only thing is that it was not with my usual number because they had already bought that number, precisely I won with the previous number.

The fact that he finally managed to win the jackpot is encouraging. But I don't want the youngsters to follow what he did. Depending on the type of lottery the chance of winning a jack pot can range from one in ten million, to one in hundred million or more. That means that even if you take 10,000 tickets (one every day for 30 years), there is only a 0.1% chance of winning the jackpot. The question will be asked whether the individual would have rather saved this amount and invested it somewhere else.

He may lose or spent money in betting before this jackpot but is it not worth a bet? computing the spent funds that long is not even 30% of how  much win now

and also there is a consolation price in every 3-4 digits that you get i think this will pay back your bets.

This cannot be consider as strategy because he constantly betting with the same number combinations .

I don't see why. I am not too keen on EV- games, like the lottery, but the good thing about it is that you can earn a life-changing amount for a negligible amount. It also doesn't have as much potential risk of abuse as other games. So I don't see a problem with young people buying one lottery number a week (or a day).

Nope.Some mathematician from Romania actually discovered the secret strategy to win the lottery decades ago.He won the lottery multiple times.I don't remember the whole story,but the plan was to buy as much lottery tickets as possible and bet on different number combinations.
Anyway,this guy proves that life is a numbers game.You keep trying and you keep failing until you succeed. ;D

Playing the lottery with the same numbers for 30 years is crazy. The person playing was lucky, it's a great chance to win an award in 30 years. When we look at it mathematically, it could have reached the prize in a much longer time :D
The money he has spent so far is quite small compared to the amount of reward he has received. I'm starting to play too :D

My father in-law is doing the same thing, he always gambles 1-2-3-4-5-6 numbers for the lottery in our nation, he does this every single week, it is a very tiny amount, like 1$ or something like that, so it is not a big deal, he spends like 50 bucks a year on it basically for every week, and that means we are talking about maybe like 3k for whole his life, very little amount of money because it wasn't even this expensive back in the day but let's assume it was, when you divide that to 1 buck per week it is nothing.

However if he ever ends up winning, which we all know won't happen, then we are talking about millions of dollars of win and that is a very big deal, people would go crazy when they get something like that, who wouldn't want something like that? Which is why I honestly believe that we should definitely be looking to do something that ends up the same way, same numbers, 40+ years, if you never win that is a small amount, if you ever win that is a huge amount.

There's no specific formula in winning the lottery as some had even died betting on the lottery and still not won, I can say this old man is lucky that his time has come, but luck is not for everyone so it doesn't mean that if we follow the same strategy, we will also win.

Some experts say that every time you bet on a lottery, you are like flushing your money in the toilet.

I guess this is how long in years you have to wait before winning in lottery in a 1 in 13,983,816, that's a lot of bets and patience you have to have in order to get your dream win in a lottery. Waiting for 20 years in lottery to win millions is no joke, that's a great perseverance he has to be able to pull this off. I bet he is so happy that he'll give some of his blessing as a donations for those who are unfortunate.

Let's just hope the lottery in his place hid his name before posting in on public that someone won millions of dollars after 20 years betting on the same numbers.

For sure he will enjoy that money  ;D that's  long waited desire for him. whoever have that huge amount of money especially during this pandemic season are more than lucky.

When lots of people are suffering you've been given a chance to win the jackpot and not just an ordinary one but more enough to change your life.

Hoping the same with his true identity, knowing that there are lots of threats after having huge amount of money.
 

This old man is really loyal to the lottery numbers that he installed...

I'm sure there are many people out there who do this kind of thing and continue to survive even though it's been decades, although the chances of the numbers that they have put up for decades are very small to hit jackpot.

This is dedication! Every week for 30 years to bet on the same numbers! It's something I saw in the movies, or read in some news, but I don't know anyone who is doing that... playing the same number every week! And this guy was doing this for 30 years! Just amazing!

I think I am not that type of person! I would last a month or maybe a little more... I am sure I would miss one week, and that would be the end of my cycle! Not something to brag about, but not all of us have that kind of character that can last for years, unchanged!

Odds is way too small on where you do need all the luck in the world before you could hit up the right combinations or simply winning the jackpot.It is really just amazing on where
there are people who could really stay up that consistent towards their numbers for a very long time.

Only a few could able to manage that but for sure there are people who do able to play the same behavior but it is much lesser or below 30 years.
Its not been known yet because they dont able to hit the jackpot.

Needing that extreme luck for you to win lottery and its always the main motive on why people do buy up tickets.

Regardless of his patience and consistence over the last 30 years. It was still chance or luck that he won the lottery. If someone repeated the same strategy, there is a big chance, they wouldn't win that much in the lifetime. We just got to know about what he did in the last 30 years because he just won $18M. Imagine the dozens that have tried the same strategy over the years and won nothing. Would they announce their failure? Certainly not.

I have faith in numbers and math but not so much with lottery numbers. The dude deserves winning that prize, and it certainly paid off. Although I must say if he didn't, betting on the lottery alone for 20 years every week will certainly set him back a couple thousand dollars. Still, congrats to the guy for sticking with the numbers that he picked. Not everyone has the capacity nor the willpower to stay true to their numbers for that long. At some point, I'm sure he thought to himself that he's just wasting money and time for doing the same thing over and over again.

We all end up in discussion that this old man is very lucky and he got the money that he can enjoy for the rest of his life. Or have it given to his family and let them invest it somewhere else that it can grow more.
The old man's patience through doing that for the 30 years, well, we can see the dedication and patience that he has shown before winning that amount.