I won $159,000 on the lottery after my 'demo strategy'
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A VIRGINIA woman has won big after deciding to play Virginia's online lottery for real after numerous practice tries on "demo" mode.
Susan Disse from Henrico, Virginia won a $158,570 jackpot after switching to the real thing.
Susan won frequently on the site's practice demo mode when she decided to try her hand at playing for actual money.
“I’m going to put some money on this!” she told lottery officials.
Susan was shocked to see that she almost immediately won a six-figure jackpot.
“I was afraid I would hit something and make it go away!” she said.
Susan's skeptical husband insisted she had just won yet again on demo mode until she made him look at the laptop and saw her winnings for himself.
“It feels unbelievable!” Susan said. “Overwhelming!”
Virginia is one of just eight states to offer online lottery games.
Players must be located in the state while playing in order to claim their prize.
The odds for winning any prize are one in 4.68 and the jackpot increases as more players join in.
Other lottery strategies
Whatever you do, make sure you never spend more than you can afford.
While you are never guaranteed to win, there are some other general tips to follow that can help boost your odds of winning.
One of them is by researching your state’s lottery website and see how many prizes and tickets are left.
It’s possible if you just show up to a corner store and buy a random scratch-off ticket, it could leave you with no chance of winning if all the prizes were gone.
The Sun recently spoke to a daily lottery player, who goes by Scratch Life on YouTube.
He has won thousands from scratch-offs by using a few strategies including having a look around the store where you are purchasing tickets from.
“If you see three tickets on the counter and you ask [the clerk] for the same ticket, most likely you're going to win if someone already lost for you,” Scratch Life said.
He also recommends talking to people who work inside the store and asking them who won and lost on particular tickets.
“They can help, they can definitely pinpoint out what ticket to play that day,” Scatch Life said.
Another strategy is looking for tickets with a high expected value, which was revealed by former mathematics instructor Professor Essa.
This is when outstanding prizes are divided by the total it would cost to buy the remaining tickets.
For example, Professor Essa found a scratch-off game called “Fastest Road to $1,000,000” to have an expected value of 82%, which is quite high compared to many other lottery games.
Some tickets could have an expected value as low as 40%.
Also, read about the brothers who both won jackpots using the same strategy.
