A Virginia man is the winner of a lottery drawing with a $5,000 top prize by purchasing 32 tickets with the same number combination. 

Wayne Roles told Virginia Lottery officials he spent $32 to purchase Pick 4 drawing tickets with the same four-digit combination for one simple reason: “When I win I want to win big.” The small business owner bought his tickets at Fas Market, Fredericksburg stores, and Courthouse Gulf on August 11 and selected the combination of 1-5-2-2. 
When Roles got his numbers he woke up in the middle of the night for a glass of water and wasn’t able to go back to sleep after discovering he had won 32 $5,000 top prizes for a total of $160,000. Roles says he plans to use his winnings to support his business. 

This wasn’t the first time someone purchased identical lottery tickets and wound up winning big. Back in 2013, Harry Black won the $31 million double lottery jackpot by purchasing two identical tickets. Each of the four winning tickets were worth close to $15.8 million each and Black had two of them.
Have you ever purchased identical lottery tickets? If so, what was your reasoning?

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