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August 19, 2009
 When Iris Friend of Richmond called the Virginia Lottery’s winning numbers hotline to check on her Win For Life ticket, she heard that five of her numbers plus the Free Ball matched the winning numbers.
“That is not what they said,” she exclaimed and hung up the phone.
A couple of days later, she visited the Virginia Lottery’s web site to check the numbers again. Sure enough, the numbers were confirmed. She had a $52,000 winner.
“That is what they said!” she said.
She won the game’s second prize with a ticket she bought at the 7-Eleven at 3600 West Cary Street in Richmond for the July 18 drawing. She bought the ticket in anticipation of her birthday.
The winning numbers for that drawing were 1-6-13-16-27-39 and the Free Ball was 12.
Win For Life offers a top prize of $1,000 per week for the life of the winner. Drawings are held Wednesday and Saturday nights at 11:00.
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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