A woman who believes she lost out on £3.6million because of a bizarre coincidence has described her misfortune as 'tragically funny'.
Nicole Makrigannis decided to play the Set for Life lottery on March 18, the grand prize seeing the winner receive £10,000 every month for 30 years.
The 23-year-old entered the draw for the second time and chose numbers she liked completely at random. Join our WhatsApp Top Stories and Breaking News group by clicking this link But when the makeup artist checked online to see the results, she says she couldn’t believe just how unlucky she had been.
In a peculiar twist of fate, each of the winning numbers were exactly one above Nicole’s set of numbers. Nicole’s numbers were 02, 11, 19, 38, 43 with the ‘life ball’ 06, while the winning numbers were 03, 12, 20, 39, 44 with the ‘life ball’ 06.
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