Of all the lottery games I've played, and I've played most, but not all of them, the only true "score" I ever bagged was more than 15 years ago, back in 2005. It was early December and the Washington Lottery's Quinto game was still in play.

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Quinto was the game where each of the possible 52 "numbers" were actually characters representing a deck of cards. Of the five cards I was dealt that day, three hands for a three dollar play, four of cards landed on one line. The only card I didn't have? Of course, the Ace of Spades. Jeepers, Lemmy, you and Motorhead, come on, you gotta be kidding me.

Matching four of the five was good for $1000. I had matched three cards in another line play on the ticket for an extra $20, so the total score was $1020. I bought a new Vizio flat screen TV. I still use it too, as a computer monitor. Vizios haven't aged well, I'm coming to understand.

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I haven't even had a sniff of sweet scratch success since.

Which brings me to once again to have to live vicariously through a very lucky Couer d'Alene, Idaho lady, and no I'm not bitter, I'm thrilled this gal rocked the system by bagging six-figure wins on CONSECUTIVE NIGHTS.

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Orlene Peterson, of Coeur d'Alene, recently won two, six-figure lottery jackpots on consecutive days. She won $200,000 on a scratch-off lottery ticket before winning $300,000 the next day on another ticket. Her odds of wining on consecutive days were 1 in 282.5 million. Orlene plans to pay off her bills, but a new truck and go to Las Vegas on vacation.

Can I come?

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