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BC Lottery Winner Played The Same Numbers For 20 Years Before $5.8 Million Jackpot

"Apparently everyone in Prince Rupert had found out."

BC Lottery Winner Played The Same Numbers For 20 Years Before $5.8 Million Jackpot
BCLC
Western Canada Editor

A woman in B.C. said it has taken 20 years of playing the same lottery numbers before she won a mammoth $5.8 million jackpot.

Juanita Parnell, from Prince Rupert, matched all six numbers in the Lotto 6/49 draw on October 6. She played with the numbers 7, 18, 19, 38, 42, and 46.

She shared the jackpot which another winner from Ontario and took home $5,790,419.90.

Speaking about her win, she said: "I was in a rush [to buy my ticket]. I had actually forgotten and was hurrying to buy [before sales closed for the draw], and was worried I would miss the numbers."

She said that her winning numbers don't have any special connection but remembers using them for a Quick Pick lottery draw two decades ago.

On her plans for the money, she would like to take her grandchildren to Disneyland because they've "never been able to go on a vacation together all at once."

Her win follows a winning trend in B.C. after Susan Friesen, from Hope, B.C. won $1 million and credited the name of her town for her success.

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      Western Canada Editor Daniel Milligan was the Western Canada Editor at Narcity Canada. He was responsible for developing trending news strategies and managing a team of writers and editors. Originally from the U.K., Daniel holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in journalism from Staffordshire University. Over the past decade, he has worked on major news stories including terror attacks in London, England, and Manchester, along with royal weddings, Brexit developments, the Canadian federal election and the Nova Scotia mass shooting. Daniel was a senior editor and newsroom leader at Trinity Mirror, one of the U.K.'s largest regional news websites. He would later move to Toronto and work at Yahoo Canada and CTV News/CTV National News.

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