This little girl has the Midas touch.
Two-year-old Anaya Hussain picked the New York Poker ticket that made her mother an instant millionaire.
"She touched it," an excited Afsheen Ahsan said Tuesday as she and eight other Lottery winners collected their winnings. "If she didn't touch it, I wouldn't have taken it. She's lucky."
A stay-at-home mom from Bay Ridge, Ahsan said she had just popped into the Top Convenience store in Brooklyn on Jan. 30 when her daughter reached over and placed her hand on a ticket.
Taking that as a sign, Ahsan, 34, said she bought a ticket — and the next thing she knew they were on Easy Street.
"I am happy," the Pakistani immigrant said. "I'm going on vacation, but I have no idea where. I want to start a business too, a grocery store."
Ahsan and boyfriend, Sayed Hussain, a 40-year-old grocery store worker, will have plenty of seed money — $31,152-a-year until 2031.
Several other local lottery winners also received oversized checks from Yolanda Vega at the Resorts World Casino in Queens.
Ron Hale, a security officer at Elmont Memorial High School on Long Island, collected a $1 million Powerball prize on behalf of his 110 co-workers. He said his group, "Friends Win Together," invest $20 in lottery tickets every marking period.
"I walked in Monday morning and they said, 'We won!'," recalled Hale, of Ridgewood, Queens. "I checked the email, and reality set in. I was like, 'Wow!' We actually won a million dollars.'"
Yakov Sheydvasser, 61, of Staten Island, was five times as lucky. He won $5 million playing "Set For Life," purchasing the winning scratch ticket on Feb. 16 at the Aman store on 20th Ave in Brooklyn.
His daughter, Janet, said it's time he took mom on a real vacation.
"They have never been on vacation for 20 years, so they deserve one," she said.
Sheydvasser quickly agreed. "Maybe the Bahamas," he said.
Bruce Magistro, 44, an unemployed construction worker from Long Island, said he cried when he realized he'd won $1 million from the Extreme Cash scratch off ticket.
"Then I thought, 'God, this will take care of all my money problems,'" the father of three said. "When that's all done, I'll still have money left over. I'll help my kids with everything with college."
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Who needs Lottery Wheels, Deflate 4 or Inspector 3? Just bring in a kid and let them do all hard work for you.
Congrat's to the lucky winners.
I guess I should start taking my 13 & 14 year with me when I buy tickets....LOL...
Congrats to all the winners.......
The toddlers are the exact ones that are in tune to their "feelings" and intuition and they are usually ALWAYS correct!!!
Since they have not been "socialized" yet!
I am thinking of renting a toddler for my next trip to purchase a lottery ticket!
Great minds think alike! Lol.
She wants to start a business. She should LEAD THE KID!
Congrats to the lucky winners.
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$200M+ Jackpots are great for business
For all of you ready to bring a toddler with you to buy lottery tickets, are you prepared to blame the toddler when you don't win?
Wow, your a negative thinker! Kids always win.
If not........back to the rental agency they go. 
Get one with red hair, singing ...
Ticket is gonna win ..
Tomorrow
Buy a line or two for
Tomorrow
There'll be fun ...
When you check your numbers
Tomorrow
Have your lawyer claim it as a trust,
if you must,
while you lay in the sun!.
Mine is a brunette that already knows how to do some stand-up comedy. She promised to make me laugh if the tickets are duds.
I didn't know $35,000 a year classifies someone as living on easy street in NYC! I thought that amount would barely cover the rent of a 2 bedroom apartment. I am super amazed she will start a grocery store biz with it.
I take mine with me to the store and let them press the selector on the machine....rotten monsters have won more than I have when it comes to scratchoffs
LOL that's funny!
You're right. $35K a year is not much in NYC. They should try to buy a brownstone and with no rent due they can look for better jobs or slowly save for a business. Thats my humble opinion anyways. I wish them success.
Nice story though
I draw cartoons. I'm just going to make up my own toddler.
That should work just fine. Added benefits: no changing of diapers, feeding, crying or sleep required.
Best idea I've heard of yet Hermanus, and all that's required are some pencils, crayons and paper. Simply brilliant!
Many years ago, there was a rumor that some people were finding their winning pick 3 numbers from looking closely at Ziggy cartoons. Others soon found that the newspaper they bought out of the street kiosk was often missing the section of page with that panel.
I don't want my 3 year old even knowing about lottery tickets. i usually buy them when i don't have her with me. Then one day i bought gas, an ice cream for her and the jackpot was up in the 80 million dollar range. i bought some quick pics. When she asked me what they were i said they're cards for people. The very next time i went to the gas station, i didn't even go inside (I just pumped gasoline), when i got back in the car she said, "you didn't get any cards"? i fell out laughing. Whose fooling whom. LOL
bUT I REALLY don't want her to know about lotteries. Her lottery is College, etc.
too funny