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On Saturday, March 4, 1989, Mrs. Winkler and her
daughter Charlotte went to buy flowers for a friend who was
in the hospital. Charlotte reminded Mrs. Winkler that they
had not purchased the family Lotto tickets on their way
home from the Mayo Clinic the night before and suggested
that they stop at a gas station to purchase tickets before
the Saturday night drawing. Mrs. Winkler initially said
that she was too tired, but Charlotte eventually convinced
her to stop. Mrs. Winkler purchased all three tickets with
her own money. She selected the numbers on the tickets
using the "quick pick" option, which caused a computer to
generate a group of six random numbers on each ticket.
Mrs. Winkler then took the tickets home and placed them in
the china cabinet where she kept the family tickets.
Charlotte also purchased a Lotto ticket for herself at the
gas station, but she kept this ticket separate from the
family tickets.
On the morning of Sunday, March 5, 1989, Mr. and
Mrs. Winkler listened when the winning numbers were
announced on the radio. Mrs. Winkler wrote the numbers
down and later checked them against the numbers on the
tickets she had purchased the day before. Much to the
Winklers' delight, one of the tickets bore all of the
numbers announced from the weekly drawing. Disbelieving
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