Nelida Lombard - $1 Million Winner From Saunierville NS

What if you had the same set of lottery numbers and played them every week. What do you think your odds of winning the jackpot would be if you played those numbers every week for five years? Ten years? Twenty years? Thirty years? Do you think your time will eventually come? Try asking Nelida Lombard of Saunierville, NS. She's played the same numbers for thirty years... and she won! But hold on. She didn't win with her regular set of numbers. She won with an Insta Pik. Maybe that means you should throw your own regular set of numbers out and start playing quick picks. Who knows. It worked for Nelida Lombard.

Nelida won $1 million playing Atlantic 49 on April 29, 2009 from Atlantic Lottery Canada. $1 million is Atlantic 49's top prize; it is a 6/49 type of game and, so, the odds of winning the jackpot on it are approximately 1-in-14-million. But for $1, you actually get two sets of numbers, meaning that for every $1 played the odds come down to approximately 1-in-7-million. Not bad odds for a $1 million jackpot.

Nelida Lombard said that she was in total shock when she found out that she won the million dollars. That's why the Saunierville, Nova Scotia woman waited three weeks before going to claim her prize. Heck, shock or not, I'd go the next morning. But everybody's different. For three weeks Nelida kept checking the ticket. She even got her kids to check the ticket. She still couldn't believe that she had the winning numbers.

Nelida Lombard really did have the winning numbers and, for that, we congratulate her!