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The Virginia Lottery is an independent agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia. It was created in 1987 when Virginians voted in a statewide referendum in favor of a state lottery. The first ticket was sold on September 20, 1988. All profits from Virginia Lottery ticket sales go to K-12 public education, as required by Virginia's constitution.
Four of the six top prizes have now been claimed in the Virginia Lottery’s “20X the Money” scratch-off game. The odds of winning the top prize are 1 in 1,958,400, though the chance of ...
A sailor wound down with an online lottery game — and nabbed the largest instant win in an online game in U.S. history, according to the Virginia Lottery. “It was surreal!” Byron Bundoc told ...
In a typical 6/49 game, each player chooses six distinct numbers from a range of 1–49. If the six numbers on a ticket match the numbers drawn by the lottery, the ticket holder is a jackpot winner— regardless of the order of the numbers. The probability of this happening is 1 in 13,983,816. The chance of winning can be demonstrated as ...
The Virginia woman also plays online lottery games, but didn’t imagine the same good fortune would come her way when she was reading the news story about another woman’s win, the Virginia ...
The ticket was purchased in Barcelona. [78] €48.6 million (US$53.2 million) was the largest jackpot in Germany 's Lotto 6 aus 49, won on 3 January 2024 by one ticket. £66.1 million (US$96 million) was the largest jackpot in the United Kingdom 's Lotto, won on 9 January 2016 by two tickets. CHF 70.1 million was the largest jackpot in ...
Lotteries in the United States did not always have sterling reputations. One early lottery in particular, the National Lottery, which was passed by Congress for the beautification of Washington, D.C., and was administered by the municipal government, was the subject of a major U.S. Supreme Court decision – Cohens v. Virginia. [7]
No one has come forward to claim it yet, the Virginia Lottery said in a Dec. 21 news release. The winning ticket landed a $2 million prize in the Dec. 20 drawing, the highest prize short of the ...