- On March 22, Tricia Johnson tried her luck by playing Massachusetts' Keno lottery.
- After winning $100,000, she tried the same numbers again ... and won another $100,000.
Tricia Johnson, of East Falmouth, Massachusetts, was shocked when she won $100,000 from the state's Keno lottery.
"I thought someone was messing with me," she told CBS Boston.
However, she was even more shocked when her family's luck didn't end there: Using the same numbers, they won the $100,000 prize twice more.
To play Keno, a player must select a number between one and 12 on the card to indicate how many numbers (spots) they would like to play. They then choose numbers between one and 80 that correspond with the number of spots the player picked. With each spot comes a different prize and chance of winning.
Johnson's luck first struck on March 22, when she chose the consecutive numbers one through 10 and hit them all, ultimately winning $100,000.
She decided to try those numbers again on April 10. She won $100,000 — again.
"It's like lightning struck twice," she told CBS Boston.
On April 10, her son, John, also played Keno using the numbers that served his mother so well. And lo and behold, the luck ran in the family. He won $100,000, making the family's total prize $300,000 before taxes.
"We just laughed and cried and hugged," Tricia Johnson told CBS Boston.
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Johnson, a waitress who also drives a school bus for children with special needs, told CBS Boston she is thrilled to have the extra cash to help pay her family's bills.