A Berryville, Vir­ginia, woman won a mil­lion dol­lars twice in the same day because she made a mis­take in buy­ing her tick­ets. Vir­ginia Fike stepped up yes­ter­day to cash in her win­ning Power­ball tick­ets pur­chased at a truck stop. “I wanted to buy one Power­ball and one Mega Mil­lions with the same num­bers but got two Power­ball ones instead,” Fike said. Since Fike played the same num­bers on both tick­ets, she won two $1 mil­lion prizes. Fike said she had no imme­di­ate plans for the jack­pot other than to pay off some bills. Fike’s win­ning for­mula for deter­min­ing her num­bers was based on her par­ents’ wed­ding anniver­sary: their wed­ding date and the ages they were when they tied knot divided by the year they were married.

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