Joan Ginter, 63, has scooped prizes worth more than £14million in a 17-year run of good luck - setting the world record for the Luckiest lottery winner.
Since 1993, the 63-year-old woman has won four windfalls on the Texas Lottery, each time winning more than $1 million for a total of $20.4 million.
Ginther’s first windfall came 17 years ago, when she won $5.4 million in a “Lotto Texas” game. She opted to have that sum paid out annually over 19 years.
The most recent win that has everyone talking: $10 million in a scratch-off game called “$140,000,000 Extreme Payout.” Her odds of winning were 1 in 1.2 million.
Her latest lotto success brings her total winnings to over $20 million.
Joan lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, but plays the Texas state lottery when she returns to her home state to visit her dad. She bought three of her winning tickets at the same convenience store in the small town of Bishop.
Not only has each ticket been bought in Texas; two of the tickets have been bought in the same store, right in Bishop, Ginther’s town of birth where neighbors say she comes back every so often to visit her father and, apparently, try her luck.
“This is a very lucky store,” Bob Solis, the manager of Times Store, told the Corpus Christi, Tex.,-based Caller Times as news about the most recent win. The owner said the store sells an average of 1,000 tickets a day.
Bobby Heith, of the Texas lottery, said: "We've had multiple winners before but she's obviously been born under a lucky star."
Since 1993, the 63-year-old woman has won four windfalls on the Texas Lottery, each time winning more than $1 million for a total of $20.4 million.
Ginther’s first windfall came 17 years ago, when she won $5.4 million in a “Lotto Texas” game. She opted to have that sum paid out annually over 19 years.
The most recent win that has everyone talking: $10 million in a scratch-off game called “$140,000,000 Extreme Payout.” Her odds of winning were 1 in 1.2 million.
Her latest lotto success brings her total winnings to over $20 million.
Joan lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, but plays the Texas state lottery when she returns to her home state to visit her dad. She bought three of her winning tickets at the same convenience store in the small town of Bishop.
Not only has each ticket been bought in Texas; two of the tickets have been bought in the same store, right in Bishop, Ginther’s town of birth where neighbors say she comes back every so often to visit her father and, apparently, try her luck.
“This is a very lucky store,” Bob Solis, the manager of Times Store, told the Corpus Christi, Tex.,-based Caller Times as news about the most recent win. The owner said the store sells an average of 1,000 tickets a day.
Bobby Heith, of the Texas lottery, said: "We've had multiple winners before but she's obviously been born under a lucky star."
