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October 13, 2009
 When Gloria Ferro of Woodbridge went to play Bingo, she had a very different card to share with her friends. It was a Virginia Lottery Scratcher ticket that won the top prize in the Lottery’s Corvette® Cash game. Ms. Ferro won the keys to a brand-new 2010 Corvette® Convertible.
“She came up to me and said, ‘I think I won a Corvette,’” her daughter Beverly told Lottery officials. “She went to the American Legion Hall and showed everyone.”
Ms. Ferro is one of nine lucky Virginia Lottery winners to win a new ’Vette. She bought the ticket at Bloom, located at 5592 Staples Mill Plaza in Woodbridge. The Corvette® Cash game also features cash prizes up to $100,000.
On October 9, 2009, she received the keys to her four-wheeled prize from Virginia Lottery Area Sales Manager James Schultz.
The Corvette® Cash Scratcher game features cash prizes up to $100,000 – and a total of nine lucky winners receive the keys to a brand-new Corvette®. Six of those winners are from scratch tickets, two from non-winning tickets drawn in second-chance drawings, and a ninth ’Vette was awarded during the September 19 Virginia Tech – Nebraska football game at Lane Stadium in Blacksburg.
Those second-chance drawings also included 1,410 exciting Corvette® merchandise prize packs, each including a Corvette® leather jacket, cap, sunglasses, duffel bag and key chain.
The odds of scratching to win a Corvette® or one of three $100,000 cash prizes are 1 in 462,400. The odds of winning any prize in the Corvette® Cash game are 1 in 4.44.
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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