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July 15, 2009
 Dana Claybrooks of Winchester celebrated her husband’s birthday in a unique way: She won the lottery!
It was June 15. She bought three tickets for the Virginia Lottery’s Cash 5 night drawing, using numbers that her husband had given to her four years earlier. All three tickets contained the same numbers: 6-10-15-24-32. When the numbers were drawn that night, the tickets matched all five to win a combined total of $100,000.
She bought all three winning tickets at the 7-Eleven at 2035 Northwestern Pike in Winchester.
When she bought the tickets, she wagered 50 cents on one of them. That ticket won $50,000. She wagered 25 cents on the other two, which won $25,000 apiece.
Cash 5 drawings are held daily at 1:59 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. The chances of winning the $100,000 top prize are 1 in 278,256.
Nearly 95 cents of each dollar spent on the Virginia Lottery by players goes back to the Commonwealth in the form of contributions to education, prizes and retailer commissions. Since 1999, all Virginia Lottery profits have been designated solely to K-12 public school education in the Commonwealth. In that time, the Lottery has turned over more than $4 billion for Virginia’s public schools. The latest annual profits of $455 million currently represent about 6 percent of state funding for public education in Virginia. In 20 years, the Lottery has sold more than $20 billion in tickets, awarded more than $1 billion in retailer commissions and paid more than $10.9 billion in prizes to players.
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