Beating 'astounding' odds, Toronto senior held two of three winning tickets in $24M jackpot
By VIVIAN SONG -- Toronto Sun
With luck like hers, Mary Wollens should buy a lottery ticket — or two.
In what’s being described as an unprecedented win in Lotto 6/49 history, 86-year-old Wollens held two of three winning tickets in the Sept. 30 draw, scoring her a windfall of $16 million.
The Etobicoke woman credited a prophetic dream for the windfall, saying she saw the winning numbers in her sleep.
“I was lying in bed and I had a dream about numbers so I wrote them down when I woke up,” she told the Ontario Lottery and Gaming corporation.
“I should pay more attention to my dreams I guess,” she said.
Wollens felt so confident that, the next day, she bought a second ticket playing the same numbers at the same Royal York Smoke store in Etobicoke.
“We don’t think this has ever happened in recent history with such a large jackpot,” said OLG spokesman Teresa Roncon. “The odds of that are astounding.”
By VIVIAN SONG -- Toronto Sun
With luck like hers, Mary Wollens should buy a lottery ticket — or two.
In what’s being described as an unprecedented win in Lotto 6/49 history, 86-year-old Wollens held two of three winning tickets in the Sept. 30 draw, scoring her a windfall of $16 million.
The Etobicoke woman credited a prophetic dream for the windfall, saying she saw the winning numbers in her sleep.
“I was lying in bed and I had a dream about numbers so I wrote them down when I woke up,” she told the Ontario Lottery and Gaming corporation.
“I should pay more attention to my dreams I guess,” she said.
Wollens felt so confident that, the next day, she bought a second ticket playing the same numbers at the same Royal York Smoke store in Etobicoke.
“We don’t think this has ever happened in recent history with such a large jackpot,” said OLG spokesman Teresa Roncon. “The odds of that are astounding.”
