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Credit: Lotto 6/49 Western Canada Lottery Corporation
Andrew Burke from Calamar won $5 million Lotto 6/49 jackpot, but not in the usual way.
Burke accidentally picked up two tickets for the same draw using the same series of numbers he’s been playing for years. Hence he shared the jackpot with himself – winning $2.5 million on each ticket.
Andrew Burke who bought his tickets from Fas Gas Calmar Service, at 5001 50th Avenue in Calmar won the September 16 jackpot with the winning numbers 6, 12, 23, 29, 44, and 46.
It’s also where he found about his double win, much to the excitement of the owner and his employees.
“The owner walked in and said, ‘What have you done Andy? Have you broken my machine?’” Burke recalled in a news release Tuesday from the Western Canada Lottery Corp.
“The clerk then told me, ‘You’ve won $2.5 million’ and I said she better check that other ticket, because it’s the same numbers!”
He joked that he’s finally lived up to his father-in-law’s expectations as he recalled, “On our wedding day, my father-in-law said ‘I always wanted my daughter to marry a millionaire, but I got the next best thing – someone who spends money like a millionaire.”
He says he wants to do some renovations on his house, restore a vintage Land Rover he owns, and maybe take a trip back home to the United Kingdom when travel is safer.
