Over 400 lottery winners hit big on the same night! Powerball winner Timothy Schultz said that recently in the Philippines 433 lottery players scored the correct combination for almost $4 million.

Even stranger, the winning numbers were all multiples of 09. They were 09, 45, 36, 27, 18 and 54. Numerologists are having a field day!

This Grand Lotto win is being treated as legitimate, although some skeptics believe it’s suspicious. In fact, government officials in the House and Senate of the Philippines are calling for an investigation.

However, statisticians say this outcome is very much possible. Just because something has a very low probability of happening does not mean it cannot happen. In fact, the contrary is true. If it is possible, it can indeed happen.

Dr Guido David, a professor of mathematics at the University of the Philippines, stated on Twitter that the probability of this happening was “1 out of 1 followed by 1,224 zeros”.

The prize will be split evenly among the 433 lucky winners. Each will receive over 5,000 pesos or around $9,000 before taxes. That is more than double the average per capita income in the Philippines.

They say that winning the lottery is like being struck by lightning. In this case, lightning struck 433 times in a single night; that is one heck of a storm!

The truth is that it only takes 1 ticket to win the lottery. Timothy Schultz’s advice is to only spend what you can afford, and have fun with it, but also remember that you do have a chance if you play.

ABOUT: Timothy Schultz is a podcaster and Youtuber with Bullhead Entertainment, LLC. In 1999, he won the Powerball before going back to college to study journalism and broadcast news.