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July 22, 2009
 Willie Walker of Richmond doesn’t play Mega Millions often. In fact, when his wife asked him to buy a ticket for the June 23 drawing, he said, “I didn’t even really know how to win.”
He did win. His ticket matched the first five numbers to win Mega Millions’ second prize of $250,000.
“I couldn’t believe it,” he told Lottery officials when he claimed his prize.
He bought the winning ticket at Spencer’s Express, located at 4000 Kingsland Road in Richmond. He used Easy Pick, allowing the computer to randomly select the numbers on his ticket. The winning numbers for that drawing were 12-14-16-31-50 and the Mega Ball was 9.
When he discovered he had a winning ticket, he immediately called his wife. She called her beautician.
Mr. Walker’s ticket was the only one in Virginia to win $250,000 in that drawing and one of just six nationwide.
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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