For the vast majority of people winning on the lottery would be like a dream come true. The life-changing event of a lotto win would set anyone up for life. However, for most people winning on the lottery is just plain impossible. However, a North Carolina family not only beat the vast odds of winning the lotto once but they did it an amazing three times.
In Charlotte in North Carolina, Kimberley McCauley, the daughter of Amy McCauley who has won the lottery twice, won a staggering $100,000 in a new scratcher game called '10X the Money'.
Kimberly's mum, Amy, first won on the lottery in the early '90s. She landed a massive $15.5 million pay-out that was given to her in annuity cheques over a 20 year period.
But 1991 was the end of Amy's good fortune for in 2007 she won on the lotto again. This time Mrs. McCauley scooped a massive $161,172 after playing the North Carolina Education Lottery in a match five win.
Amy's wins didn't stop there either. She went on to win two further one thousand dollar prizes from the state lottery. Her incredible luck saw her appear on the Oprah Winfrey show to discuss her amazing wins.
The latest McCauley win was claimed in person by mother and daughter as Kimberley wanted her lottery-winning veteran of a mum to be with her. Both ladies arrived at the North Carolina Education Lottery headquarters in Raleigh to claim Kimberley's prize.
A spokesman for the North Carolina Education Lottery, Ryan Kennemur, said the two appeared to be calm. He told a news crew that one would think that winning a third time seemed to be almost a normal thing for the women.
Amy's daughter Kimberly, whose walked away with a cool $68,001 after paying taxes, set her sights on a new Mini Cooper and promised to pay off her student loans and other debts gathered during her studies.
Did the McCauley's have a system they used to beat the lottery? They claim it was just plain good luck. But there are other people who claim they have won the lottery, including multiple lotto winners, using lottery systems. One quick look at How to Win the Lottery will show that these systems do in fact exist!
You may think that the McCauley's story is a prime example of amazing luck that could never be repeated but this is not the first time such a thing has happened. In fact it happened in North Carolina before. North Carolina resident Michael Mabe also won the lotto twice. Mabe, from Belews Creek, North Carolina, collected his second $100,000 prize in May 2011 after winning his first back in December of 2010.
There is also the story of the Texan woman, Joan Ginther, who won the lottery a staggeringly unbelievable four times! Since 1993, this unassuming 63-year-old Texan woman has won four windfalls on the Texas Lottery, each time winning more than $1 million for a grand total of $20.4 million.