Atlantic Cafe received a $5,000 bonus for selling the $500,000 ticket and the four locations that sold the $100,000 tickets will each receive $1,000. The $1 million ticket was sold at Zenner's Pub & Deli, which will receive a $10,000 bonus for its sale. “While a rare occurrence, it shows that the chances of consecutive numbers being selected are the same as the chances of any other set of numbers.”
“Congratulations to all of the winners and the retailers who sold these tickets,” said Mark William Bracken, Interim Executive Director of the Massachusetts State Lottery. Keno players are allowed to select from one to 12 total spots, with a $1 million prize offered if all 12 spots are matched. The player picked numbers 1-12 out of 80 to match a field of 20 randomly selected during the lottery drawing on Wednesday (March 22) night, the Massachusetts Lottery announced in a news release shared on Thursday (March 23). A Keno player in Pittsfield became the first person to win the $1 million prize in Massachusetts Lottery history by using a unique strategy.
