Edmonton women sole winner of $15 million lottery prize

The winning strategy employed by Alberta's latest lottery millionaireis bound to irk those involved in officelottery pools that snap updozens of tickets to boost their chances.

I only ever buy one ticket, saidEdmontonian Mary AnnEstanislao. I believe that if youre meant to win, youonly need one.

Estanislaos one ticket turned out to be the only ticket sold across Canada tomatch all seven winning Lotto Maxnumbers on Oct. 24, 2014 awarding her witha cool$15 million.

But her win may also have to do with her raw optimism.

I often talk about all the things Id do if I ever won the lotto, she said in a news release. So when I asked my daughter to sit down because I had something to tell her, she asked right away, Did you win the lottery?

Estanislaos said she will use the money pay off her mortgage andbills andtravel while she considersa number of charitable causes.