A couple were left stunned after cracking a trio of double-yolk eggs in a carton from Aldi, only to discover the fourth was a quadruple-yolk egg which has odds of 11,000,000,000 to one. Chris Tulley, 26, and partner Ciaran Duffy, 36, were on holiday in Center Parcs with their family when they came across the incredibly rare find and opted to buy a lottery ticket straight away to see if their luck would continue.
After cracking the four eggs which had 10 yolks, the pair didn't think much of it. It was only after Googling their find when they realised just how rare this was.
Nurse Chris and social worker Ciaran were making a fry up for their family using a box of six free-range eggs from Aldi when they spotted the yolk corker.
Chris, from Sheffield, said: "We were making breakfast, I cracked three eggs and they were both doubles and the last one was a quadruple.
"We said 'oh that's a surprise, how random' - then we kept cracking them and they were all the same. It was weird because we'd never seen it before. How do you get all the yolks like that in one box? It's just random and odd."
According to The British Egg service, cracking an egg with a double yolks has odds of a thousand to one, but seeing four yolks in your egg after cracking it has astronomical odds of 11,000,000,000 to one.
On seeing these odds, the pair decided to rush out and buy a lottery ticket to see if they could continue their good luck streak.
Unfortunately, they did not win a penny.
Chris said: "At the time we didn't realise how unusual it was, it was only after when we googled it, we realised how different it was. The odds are 11 billion to one. As if we managed to crack one when it's an 11 billion to one chance. They must have come from the same chicken."
However, Chris was slightly disappointed that a string of good luck did not come in something a bit bigger than eggs.
He said: "I wish we could get lucky with something else other than cracking an egg. I decided to put the lottery on that weekend and I've been doing it more often but no luck there. The other two in the pack were singles. They looked normal, they weren't big but the yolks were smaller. They weren't the size of an average yolk. We asked all the family to come and have a look.
"My brother cracked a double yolk once and found out he was pregnant with my niece. I wonder after the quadruple if that'll happen again with twins."
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