Lucky or what?!!

An American woman has emerged as the luckiest lottery winner in the world after scopping her FOURTH multi-million pound jackpot. Joan Ginther, who lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, has made her fourth trip to Texas lottery headquarters in Austin this week. She won $10 million (£6.2m), the top prize in Texas Lottery's $140 million Extreme Payout scratch-off ticket. The payout pushed her winnings from lottery games to over £14m!

According to the Texas Lottery Commission, her first multi-million payout came in 1993 when she won $5.4 million share of an $11million Lotto Texas jackpot. The odds of winning were 1 in 15.8 million (worse odds than those of UK Lotto game). In 2006, she won a top prize of $2 million in the Holiday Millionaire game. That was on a $30 scratch-off ticket. The odds were 1 in 1.03 million. Two years later her luck struck again. In 2008, she scooped a further $3 million prize in Millions and Millions, another scratch-off ticket. Odds were 1 in 1 million. And finally, this week she claimed her latest win of $10 million, beating the odds of 1 in 1.2 million.

What are the odds of winning 4 times?

Michael Starbird, a University of Texas at Austin math professor who has written a book on coincidence and other mathematical quirks, said the odds of a four-time win are less likely than being hit by lightning. He added that it is "pretty astronomical". The chances of winning four lottery jackpots are over 200 million to one.

Ginther has requested minimal publicity from the Texas Lottery Commission, hence very little known of her. It is thought that she had once worked as a university professor in California and that she bought her lucky tickets at the same small convenience store in the town of Bishop, Texas. Friends said Ginther would return to her home town to visit her father and would always drop in at the local store to buy a scratch card.

Let's do it the Ginther way!

Lucky 4 times? Incredible! Let's wish for some luck to our lottery syndicate Paeonia. It is a rollover on Saturday with an estimated jackpot of £7m.

Good luck if you participate in the Euromillions game tonight - it is also a rollover!