It took 26 years for his numbers to win big
Robert Lundstedt was feeling lucky Monday morning. So lucky that the Bridgewater, Massachusetts, carpenter bought nine Mass Cash tickets from four different locations for that day's drawing, all using his usual combination of numbers: 1, 7, 11, 26, and 30.
And that feeling paid off.
As he checked the lottery results while buying paper towels the next day, Lundstedt, 56, discovered that he had bought nine $100,000 winning tickets, his wife of 29 years said.
Virginia Lundstedt, 52, said he would usually only play the number twice in one day, but this time he told her, "I just had a hunch."
Virginia said her husband has been playing the same numbers for 26 years.
"That's how old we were when he started playing that number," she said. "When he started playing Mass Cash, I was 26 and he was 30."
Her husband also just liked the numbers 1, 7, and 11, she said.
Before the drawing Monday night, Robert gave one of his nine tickets to his daughter Kristen, 24, and one to his son Brian, 21. The family of four visited the lottery's headquarters together Wednesday to claim their prizes.
Robert plans to use his $700,000 to pay off the mortgage on his home.
Kristen and Brian both said they will put their $100,000 prizes toward their college educations. Kristen will soon start her career as a preschool teacher after earning her master's degree in special education from Endicott College. Brian will start his senior year at Bridgewater State University this fall.
"It's crazy how he did this, and it came out amazing," Virginia said. "We're just very happy about it."
Massachusetts State Lottery spokesman Christian Teja said the odds of winning the grand prize are 1 in 324,632. Because each Mass Cash ticket is only $1, he said, it isn't uncommon for winners to have purchased more than one.
"Over the course of the year, there will be several occasions where the same winner will have multiple winning tickets for one drawing," Teja said.
Lundstedt purchased four of his winning tickets at Trucchi's Supermarket at 53 East Center St. in West Bridgewater, two tickets at Quick Stop at 47 North Main St. in West Bridgewater, two more at The Corner Market at 227 Matfield St. in West Bridgewater, and one at Cumberland Farms at 33 Main St. in Bridgewater.
After learning that he had won, Lundstedt called his wife and told her to come home. When she arrived, he showed her one of the tickets.
"Oh, my God, Rob, you finally won!" she told him, she said.
"Nope," he said. Then he plunked down his other winning tickets, one by one, she said.
"He kept throwing tickets in front of me and I'm, like, 'Oh my God, are you freaking kidding me?' It was crazy," he said.
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ATTA BOY Robert
............What a great story !!! Way to believe & be persistent. Enjoy your newly acquired wealth and having no mortgage. 
Read this yesterday and just re-read it; missed the sentence same numbers for 26 years. Talk about perseverance.
Without sounding like a spokesman for the MA lottery, they have brought back Mass Cash Season tickets again. Go to there website to read all about it. Contemplating doing this...we'll see.
A great Dad sharing with his kids and so happy for all of them.
I live in New York and I too am contemplating buying a Mass Cash Season ticket because they're on sale until August 4th.
Players need NOT live in Massachusetts to buy a Mass Cash subscription! The Mass Lottery will take a Mass Cash subscription via the U.S. mail from anywhere in the U.S.A. Google Massachusetts Lottery and check out the details on buying season tickets on their website.
Mass Cash carries 1 in 324,632 odds. The jackpot is NOT parimuteul which is why the recent winner won $900,000. He bought nine jackpot winning tickets each worth $100,000. Mass Cash players in Massachusetts are well aware of what this winner did as this kind of thing happens fairly often with Mass Cash. Evidence/proof of that fact can be viewed on The Mass Lottery's website.
I'm thinking that I'll buy a Mass Cash Season Ticket with five identical lines for six months. G5
Robert sure knows how to dig in, and it paid off.
GiveFive: You CANNOT buy any subscription through the U.S. Mail including the Massachusetts State Lottery Commission.
They had sent me FOUR letters about this MassCash; in fine print it said only to mailed within Mass. So I called them and she said No, you can't send us a check, but you can buy them over the phone using a credit card'. Unfortunately multi-state lotteries such as PB, MM and L4L I have a friend or my Brother get those for me. They have to be purchased in state, then they mail out your ticket after you fill out the required information on-line or mail it to them to do.
Megabucks Doubler can be called in from out of state too.
Friday the 13th...let's make it a lucky one for an LP member!
It's as though Lady Luck kept saying $200k isn't enough. When he ramped things up, she responded, now that I can do. Badda bing. Badda boom!
Love this story
Interesting. The New York Lottery does allow subscriptions via the U.S. Mail but only for subscribers with a NY mailing address. I think you’re saying the same thing about the Mass Lottery if i’m not misinterpreting your post. That’s probably why you can only get a subscription form at a lottery retailer in Mass. It is NOT available for downloading on the Mass Lottery’s website.
No big deal. I’ll call them with my credit card handy. G5
Well they have swedish names so here come some swedish congrats!
Grattis till lottovinsten! Slösa nu inte bort allt på smågodis!
Awesome
Gotta double up triple quadruple etc., each play even when playing pick 3 to pick 4 and all big games."
He was so smart to do that.What a beautiful win.$$$ and he is only in
early to mid 50's plenty of time, to SPEND/INVEST/ENJOY IT ALL,
with the kids, the family those he love.
Congratulations.
I misspoke; she said they cannot accept checks to play the Mass. lottery subscription service. Mea culpa.
Robert and Virginia Lundstedt raised two wonderful kids. I can see them both doing very good things in their lives.
Congrats to the Lundstedt family!!
That is wonderful
No problem. If they don't accept checks, do you know whether or not they'll accept credit card info on a subscription form mailed to them? I cant imagine why they wouldn't if they'll take credit card info over the phone.
The reason I ask is because as I mentioned in my 2nd post subscription forms are only available at lottery retailers. (They're not available for downloading via The Mass Lottery website) I have to drive up to Mass tomorrow anyway (a little less than an hour's drive) so I was thinking I'd stop and get a form.
Tell ya what I'll do - If any one has been following this discussion that does not live in Massachusetts and is interested in a Mass Cash subscription - I'll stop and get a form and post here what I find out. G5
Last I knew they don't take American Express cards. Others are OK. You call them up, give them the #'s or QP for MM Doubler or Mass Cash. Then they mail you a 3 X 8 or so heavy paper ticket with perforations to take out the ticket if you want. If you visit in person the retailer prints out the paper ticket along with another piece of paper that you do on-line or mail it to them and they fill it out for you. Last time I believe visiting there then they mail you a confirmation ticket as in the 4th sentence.