{"id":224981,"date":"2020-09-29T16:04:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T15:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=224981"},"modified":"2020-09-29T16:06:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T15:06:31","slug":"3-brothers-win-lottery-after-playing-same-numbers-for-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/3-brothers-win-lottery-after-playing-same-numbers-for-40-years\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Brothers Win Lottery After Playing Same Numbers For 40 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three brothers from Australia have won the lottery, after playing the same numbers for 40 years. You couldn\u2019t write it could you?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The brothers won the\u00a0$511,000 (\u00a3283,000) jackpot recently, after 4 decades of playing the game.<\/p>\n

The jackpot prize will be split between them, so that\u2019s around $175k each!<\/p>\n

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Finally.<\/p><\/div>\n

When talking about the win to TattsLotto, one of the brothers said: <\/span>“The win will be shared between my two brothers and me.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s a great amount of money. It will be a nice bonus! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“We play every week! We’ve been playing these same numbers for 40 years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“I don’t remember why we chose these numbers exactly. All I know was 40 years ago we each wrote down numbers and selected a ticket to play. We’ve been playing ever since. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“Yesterday after I checked the ticket, I spent about 10 minutes double-checking it to make sure it was right, and I hadn’t made a mistake.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“I checked the ticket a number of times before checking the website a number of times. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“I just wanted to make sure it was confirmed and re-confirmed before I told them.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“Once I <\/span>realised<\/span> it was true, I had the <\/span>honour<\/span> and pleasure of telling my brothers we were division one winners.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“It was a great feeling to be able to call them and let them know!”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not fully sure how taxes work in AUS, but let\u2019s hope they actually see a lot of the jackpot, as gambling winnings in other countries are often taxed pretty heavily!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three brothers from Australia have won the lottery, after playing the same numbers for 40 years. You couldn\u2019t write it could you?\u00a0 The brothers won the\u00a0$511,000 (\u00a3283,000) jackpot recently, after 4 decades of playing the game. The jackpot prize will be split between them, so that\u2019s around $175k each! When talking about the win to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":225015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[514,1631,1792,1828,71,1454,1295],"class_list":["post-224981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worldwide-news","tag-australia","tag-australia-news","tag-good-news","tag-lottery","tag-news","tag-worldwide","tag-worldwide-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225016,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224981\/revisions\/225016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}