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August 12, 2009
 Timothy Brown of Richmond nearly threw his ticket away. He didn’t realize it was worth $100,000. Even when the clerk at the store told him that his Cash 5 ticket won the top prize, he still didn’t believe it.
“I completely tuned out what he just told me,” Mr. Brown later told Virginia Lottery officials.
His ticket, which he bought at Parham Pit Stop at 807 East Parham Road in Richmond, won the top prize in the July 31 Cash 5 day drawing.
The winning numbers for that drawing were 1-12-16-22-28. He used Easy Pick, allowing the terminal to randomly select the numbers on his ticket.
Mr. Brown, who teaches Kung Fu, said he had no immediate plans for his winnings.
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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