April Fools Delight With Two $1m Powerball Wins for ‘Power Couple’

April Fools Day is one that a husband and wife from Maryland, USA will never forget. Known as the “Power Couple,’ they both won $1 million in the Powerball draw that was held that day.

The players live in the Anne Arundel County area of the American state. They are regular Powerball players. Even so, they had no idea that they’d both won $1 million.

Their numbers for the April 1 Powerball draw had been used in the past. They’d certainly never been so lucky in previous draws though.

It wasn’t until the following day that the results of the draw were checked. It was the male half of the couple who made the amazing discovery. He saw the numbers and thought they looked familiar.

No!

He then decided to go to the Powerball website and realised something big was happening. “I  saw the numbers and I said, ‘No!’”. Immediately, he called his wife and unable to contain his excitement, he told her that they had won $1 million. Now if he’d done that on April Fools Day no one would have believed him.

Winning such a huge amount is of course an emotional experience. The Powerball winner admits that “we had our crying moment.”  Twenty minutes later he decided to check their other Powerball tickets to see if they’d had any success.

What if?

After seeing the Powerball results, he knew that there was another $1 million winning ticket out there somewhere. He joked to his wife “I still have tickets to go through. What if I have the second $1 million dollar ticket?'"

He checked the other tickets and amazingly, he was right. They had used the same numbers on another ticket and instead of winning $1 million, they’d won $2 million. Last week saw  a ticket in Oregon win a $1.326 billion Powerball jackpot.

The “Power Couple” now plan on investing their great win. Tonight’s Powerball draw has a $78 million jackpot after a rollover on Monday. Will you be the winner this evening?

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