Lottery Luck

So you think you've had a bad day?

 In 1980 Maureen Wilcox bought two tickets, one for the Massachusetts State Lottery and one for the Rhode Island lottery.  With an incredible display of good luck, she chose the right combinations to win both lotteries. With an incredible display of bad luck, she chose the numbers on the wrong tickets.  The numbers she chose for the Massachusetts State Lottery were the numbers that won the Rhode Island lottery. The numbers she chose for the Rhode Island lottery were the numbers which won the Massachusetts State Lottery.

(From Scientific American February 2014)