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August 20, 2009
 When Kay Michaels of Colonial Heights went to the Virginia Lottery’s Web site to check her Win For Life ticket, she thought it might be a winner.
“I said, ‘Oh, we won $200,’ and I was excited about that,” she later told Lottery officials. “I looked again and said, ‘Well, maybe we won $600.’”
Wrong on both counts. Actually, she had won $52,000.
Ms. Michaels’ ticket matched five of the first six numbers plus the Free Ball number in the July 29 Win For Life drawing. The winning numbers for that drawing were 2-9-18-29-30-34 and the Free Ball number was 7. She bought the winning ticket at the 7-Eleven located at 3240 Boulevard in Colonial Heights using the Easy Pick function.
After she discovered the ticket was a winner, she had to wait until the following Monday to redeem the ticket. That was a long weekend. She kept the ticket on her dresser. “I checked it occasionally to make sure it was safe,” she said.
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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