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Here’s one for the unusual and borderline fantastical stories book. A man from Nebraska, yes you read that right, Nebraska, has managed to beat a family lottery record in just two months. Not sure what’s more unlikely, one family winning two lottery jackpots in two months or the fact that it happened in Nebraska. Either way, it’s an incredible saga of luck that definitely deserves a spotlight in The Lottery Lab.

Picture this, just two months prior, a young man from the heartland of America was basking in his own good fortune. After scratch and sniff, literally and metaphorically, his way to a staggering $100,000 lottery win, he was surely enjoying his 'rich kid of Nebraska' moments. Life, quite literally, was very much in the money. But someone else in his family was about to grab the monetary headlines himself.

His own father, who we can safely guess must be basking in the genetic lottery himself, took family gambling to a whole new level. In a turn of events that is very much 'like father, definitely not like son', he managed to one-up his offspring in the most splendid way imaginable. Cue in the trumpets and fanfares because this proud dad just walked away with a whopping lottery win of $120,000. That’s right - another member of the same family just bettered the lottery win in the space of eight weeks.

Evidence of beginner's luck or fated fortune, we do not know. But what we do know is that the father's lottery payout comfortably eclipses his plucky son’s lottery loot. Clearly the number gods were looking favorably upon this family. According to the Nebraska Lottery official, the odds of winning the top prize in the lottery game the father won are 1 in 80,000. So, just compare and cogitate over those odds for a moment.

The Nebraska Lottery’s catchphrase is “Anything Can Happen”. Perhaps nothing epitomizes this better than the family lottery exploits of this one household in the cornhusker state. With other players in the region probably casting envious glances and scratching their heads, it’s safe to assume that there’s one family in Nebraska that’s sitting a little more comfortably tonight.

As the man himself said after the win - it just goes to show that lightening does, in fact, sometimes strike twice if you're lucky. And it certainly seems like luck does truly run in the family. At TheLotteryLab, we say, be the envy of your neighbour, not the victim of your own disbelief. So, why not reach out for your own slice of lottery success today? After all, anything can happen!