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October 6, 2009
 Moruf Olayiwola of Glenn Dale, Maryland, thought he might have won a prize in the September 29 Mega Millions drawing. His wife looked at the ticket and told him he won $150. That wasn’t quite correct. Actually, the ticket was worth $250,000.
Mr. Olayiwola matched the first five numbers and only missed the Mega Ball number to win Mega Millions’ second prize. He bought the winning ticket at the 7-Eleven at 4756 Baxter Road in Virginia Beach.
The winning numbers for that drawing were 2-21-25-45-50 and the Mega Ball number was 21. He used the Easy Pick function, allowing the computer to randomly select the numbers on his ticket.
Mr. Olayiwola works as a Navy technician in the Hampton Roads area. His ticket was one of just eight nationwide to win $250,000 in that drawing, and the only one in Virginia. If he had matched that last number, he would have won a jackpot estimated at $88 million.
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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