Aug. 28 (UPI) — A Kansas man said a break with his unusual superstition led him to buy a lottery ticket he normally wouldn’t have touched — and it won him $10,000.
Robert Burel told Kansas Lottery officials that he has a rule when it comes to purchasing scratch-off tickets: He only buys tickets that end in “7” or feature numbers that add up to “7.”
“This one was #12, so I wasn’t going to get it, but I was feeling lucky so I went ahead and got it,” Burel said.
Burel’s break from superstition turned out to be profitable — he won the top prize on the $10,000 Crossword ticket.
“I knew immediately after scratching it that the ticket was a winner,” Burel said. “I started counting words and when I got to 11, I got excited. Then there were 12, and finally 13, and I started to get all jittery.”
Burel, a truck driver, said the money will go toward buying his own semi so he can go into business for himself.
