Something seemed awry as the winners posted about their good fortune in online chats. One Facebook group member said the “Twilight Zone” odds against not just one but several people winning the lottery to buy multiple bottles almost broke his calculator.
How could it be, these bourbon drinkers wondered, that two entrants had won all four bottles in a single drawing of bottles of George T. Stagg Bourbon and other choiceSomething seemed awry as the winners posted about their good fortune online or discussed it in online chats, said Gus Guimond, 30, a Chantilly resident who belongs to the “DMV Bourbon Drinkers” club on Facebook.“We started to notice people saying, ‘Hey, I won two bottles,’” Guimond, who works in finance, said in an interview.
Guimond said the “Twilight Zone” odds against not just one but several people winning the lottery to buy multiple bottles almost broke his calculator. He figured it to be about 1 in a tredecillion. That’s 42 zeros. “To put that into perspective, the chances of this happening is equivalent to finding a single atom in our entire solar system,” Guimond wrote in an email last week to the ABC.
The ABC’s liquor lottery is intended to give Virginia residents a shot at buying liquors for a reasonable price that, on the open market, sometimes go for exorbitant sums. A fifth of George T. Stagg bourbon, which has been aged 15 years and retails in Virginia ABC stores for $99.99, can sell for as much as $1,482 elsewhere.In addition to the Stagg bourbon, the ABC’s April lottery gave people a chance to buy Thomas H.
The electronic system already is in use for a parallel lottery among Virginia ABC licensees, such as bars and restaurants, that is intended to distribute prized liquors fairly, Kane said.
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