News writer; Opinion columnist
If Massachusetts lottery player Christine Wilson has a theme song for her life, it should be DJ Khaled's “All I Do is Win” because she can't stop winning seven-figure jackpots.
The Attleborough resident enjoyed a remarkable streak of luck when she won two million dollar prizes in just ten weeks. Read on to learn which games she played to create one of the most unlikely hot streaks in lottery history.
Millions for life
Wilson didn't waste any time getting her streak of good fortune started. The instant win game Lifetime Millions launched on February 6, 2024, and by February 23, she had collected her first million-dollar prize from the game.
Wilson chose the cash payout and took home $650,000 before taxes. She told state lottery officials that she planned to use the money for her savings and to buy a new SUV.
She purchased her ticket at Dub's Discount Liquors in Mansfield. The store will receive a $10,000 sales commission bonus for selling the winning game.
Lifetime Millions costs $50 to play, and top prize winners will receive one million dollars a year for the rest of their lives, or they can opt for a cash option of $15.4 million. The game also features four $2 million prizes and twelve $1 million prizes.
This Massachusetts Lottery game offers a payout of 82%, which matches the highest percentage of any Massachusetts scratch-off game since instant win games were introduced in the state in 1974.
Lifetime is a number match game in which players match thirty-five numbers against the game's ten winning numbers to collect the corresponding prize. Finding a STAR symbol automatically wins the prize, and you can boost your winnings by finding multipliers ranging from 5X to 500X.
The ticket also features three bonus areas with prizes of up to $1,000.
And in case your luck isn't as good as Wilson’s, you can also enter a non-winning ticket into a second-chance drawing with a top prize of $50,000.
Win again
For most players, winning one million dollars would be the fulfillment of a lifetime dream. But for Wilson, it was just a good start. With her bank account newly full of zeroes and commas, she decided to press her luck and try again.
This time, her game of choice was the instant win game 100X Cash. While the ticket was different, the results were the same, and she collected another million-dollar prize on May 1. Once again, she opted for the $650,000 cash payout. She purchased her ticket at Family Food Mart in Mansfield, which will also collect a $10,000 bonus for selling a million-dollar ticket.
This win was an even better return on her investment because the game cost only $10 instead of $50 to play.
100X Cash is another numbers match game. To play, players need to match their fifteen numbers to the game's six winning numbers. The ticket also features multipliers ranging from 5X to 100X that can boost the value of your prize. Finding a MONEYBAG symbol wins every award on the ticket. Non-winning tickets are eligible for a second chance drawing.
The game's top prize is $4 million, and two other jackpots are still waiting to be won.
Astronomical odds
Wilson joins one of the world's smallest clubs, with players who have won multiple million-dollar lottery prizes. Membership is defined by the astronomically small chances of winning more than once.
Her odds of winning her first million dollars were 1 in 2,100,000. Her odds of winning her second million dollars were 1 in 1,612,800. We tried to compute her odds of winning both of those prizes in a span of just two and a half months, but our calculator didn't have enough zeroes.
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