'We were all dancing in the kitchen': 2 million-dollar lotto prizes won in Metro Vancouver
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Two recent lottery winners are making travel plans from their home in Metro Vancouver, while another winner from the area celebrated with a nice bottle of wine.
Two recent lottery winners are making travel plans from their home in Metro Vancouver, while another winner from the area celebrated with a nice bottle of wine.
Surrey couple Arthur and Margaret Lyon found out they'd won $1 million on their anniversary.
Their sudden windfall came from a Lotto 6/49 draw in November.
They told the B.C. Lottery Corporation they felt a range of things when they found out they'd got won guaranteed prize: "Unbelievable! Surreal! Amazing!"
The odds of winning that particular prize, by matching all 10 digits, vary depending on the number of tickets sold for the draw, but the odds of matching all six numbers in the jackpot draw are one in 13,983,816.
One person from Ontario claimed that prize, which for their draw was more than $7.5 million.
The Lyons said finding out they'd won on their anniversary made it that much more unbelievable.
