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September 23, 2009
Somewhere there is a small slip of paper. It is a Mega Millions ticket worth $250,000. At 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 24, that valuable ticket will become worthless – unless the winner presents the ticket to the Virginia Lottery and claims his or her prize.
The ticket for the March 27, 2009, Mega Millions drawing was bought at the 7-Eleven located at 2413 Staples Mill Road in Richmond. It matched the first five numbers and only missed the Mega Ball number to win Mega Millions’ second prize of $250,000. The winning numbers for that drawing were 10-15-24-38-50 and the Mega Ball number was 19.
According to Virginia Lottery rules, winning tickets expire 180 days after the drawing. All Virginia Lottery unclaimed prize money goes to the state Literary Fund. The Literary Fund is used solely for educational purposes, such as school construction, renovation and teacher retirement funding. Since its inception in 1988, the Lottery has transferred more than $190.1 million in unclaimed prizes to the Literary Fund.
Whoever has that ticket should contact the Virginia Lottery immediately at 804-692-7000.
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 $439.1 million currently represent about 6 percent of state funding for public education in Virginia. In 21 years, the Lottery has sold more than $21.1 billion in tickets, awarded more than $1.1 billion in retailer commissions and paid more than $11.6 billion in prizes to players.
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