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October 20, 2009
 Daniel Randolph of Roanoke had one thing on his Saturday morning agenda: a haircut. After that important task was complete, he stopped at a nearby store to play some Virginia Lottery games. He bought a Blazin` Red Hot Cash ticket and scratched it while he was still in the store. What the ticket revealed came as a shock.
“I just looked at it,” he later told Lottery officials. “I was tickled.”
The ticket was a $500,000 winner. He bought it at Smoker’s Choice, located at 3515 Franklin Road SW in Roanoke.
Mr. Randolph, who manages an asphalt plant, said he plans to use his winnings to pay bills and invest for retirement.
Blazin` Red Hot Cash is one of more than 50 games currently offered by the Virginia Lottery. Mr. Randolph’s ticket is the second to win the $500,000 prize in this game, which means there is one top-prize-winning ticket yet to be claimed.
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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