309: one man's blind luck

This is a nice light-hearted story with which to end the working week. As reported in today's linked article from The Journal Gazette (a local newspaper from Fort Wayne, Indiana), a Roanoke man had an amazing run of luck recently. Bobby Guffey has been playing the local lottery regularly for nearly two decades, using the same numbers. However, having left his glasses at home on one occasion recently, he entered one number incorrectly on his ticket. He realized shortly afterwards and bought a second ticket to correct the mistake. Well, you guessed it - the ticket with the 'wrong' number won him $3m! (And of course he won an additional $1000 with his other ticket, for having all but one number correct.) A very happy mistake indeed... (Photo from The Journal Gazette.)