US Woman Wins $1.4 Million Lottery Using Child's Birthday Numbers
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The winning numbers that were selected in the evening drawings on March 6 were 6, 8, 16, 17 and 20.
Picking lottery numbers can be a superstitious affair. People use everything from lucky charms to consistently playing the same numbers, hoping to strike it rich. One mom, aptly nicknamed "Lucky Mom," used her child's birthdate as her lucky number.
This gamble paid off in a big way, winning her $1.4 million in the Illinois Lottery's Lucky Day Lotto jackpot! As fate would have it, she discovered the news while tending to her crying baby in the early hours, according to a release from the Illinois Lottery.
"My baby woke up crying, and after tucking them back into bed, I had trouble falling back asleep. So to pass the time, I opened the lottery app on my phone, and I couldn't believe it when it showed that I had just won $1.4 million! Absolutely wackadoodle," she said in a statement included in the release.
