HALIFAX — Raymond Lillington stared at his lottery ticket in disbelief following last Saturday’s Lotto 649 draw, thinking he couldn’t have won a jackpot worth several million dollars _ again. “So I turned around to Gaye and said ‘it’s us again!’ and she said, ‘what?’ I said, ’it’s us again!’”Cape Breton’s Raymond Lillington is the winner of $17.4 million on @Lotto649! Meet the winner of the second-largest lottery prize ever won in Nova Scotia: https://t.co/iO0D88WcW6#AtlanticWin 🎉 pic.twitter.com/S5T0JPVy41 — Atlantic Lottery (@AL_Lottery) August 19, 2020Lillington’s recent win was the second-largest lottery prize ever awarded in Nova Scotia and it followed his $3.2-million win in 2013. “Winning twice is what makes this all so hard to believe,” Lillington said, according to an Atlantic Lottery press release. When asked if there are any lessons to be learned from his luck at playing the lottery, Lillington was ready with an answer.

Source: Huffington Post August 19, 2020 17:46 UTC