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True Crime, History

4.4 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Perhaps some people are born lucky. . . and then there are others, who have singular experiences that can be described as, well, miracles. That seems to have been the case for fifteen people in a small Nebraska town in 1950.

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0:00.0	I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing, the show where we search the nation's news archives for stories that can't quite be explained.
0:22.6	Strangers, today we've got a question for you.
0:26.8	Do you believe in luck?
0:28.6	Or rather, do you think that some people are naturally lucky or unlucky?
0:34.6	Is there a roll of the dice that falls in their favor or is it all down to chance?
0:40.3	There are certainly some strange coincidences that have come to our attention via the media.
0:46.3	Some are small and some are, well, life-changing or death-defying,
0:52.3	are some among us destined to live charmed lives, predestined perhaps.
0:58.8	Is there a brief moment of some intervention, divine or otherwise, that takes hold, guiding the
1:06.4	lives of mere mortals? Or, maybe, some people are just really good at scratching lotto tickets.
1:16.8	That seemed to be the case with a Texas resident named Joan Ginther. She won $21 million
1:23.4	in the scratch-off games, which, as we imagine your thinking, is pretty impressive,
1:29.2	but certainly not the highest jackpot ever scored. But here's the thing. According to mental
1:35.8	floss, Joan Ginther didn't win the Texas lottery once. She turned in four separate winning tickets, one draw and three scratch-offs,
1:48.0	between 1993 and 2010 to collect four separate multimillion-dollar prizes. The Associated Press reported
1:56.9	that the odds of that kind of winning streak were calculated by, quote,
2:01.4	mathematicians as slim as 1 in 18 septillion.
2:07.6	Sounds pretty unbelievable, right?
2:09.6	Well, considering that Joan Ginther earned a doctorate in mathematics from Stanford, maybe not. But according to the Charleston Gazette,
2:21.6	no one could ever get a straight answer out of Joan. Did she figure out a mathematical approach
2:27.6	some sort of algorithm that allowed her to choose her tickets? She always bought them from the same little store in town.
2:37.0	Was there someone who worked there who was in on it?
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