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The lists do not include "4+1" games, such as Florida's Lucky Money, where all five numbers must be matched to win the top prize, but are drawn from two number fields(A similar game, Montana's "Big Sky Bonus", is actually a "four-number" game; the double matrix is 4/31 + 1/16(previously was 4/28 + 1/17). Matching all four "regular" numbers wins ...
The Virginia Lottery is an independent agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia. It was created in 1987 when Virginians voted in a statewide referendum in favor of a state lottery. The first ticket was sold on September 20, 1988. All profits from Virginia Lottery ticket sales go to K-12 public education, as required by Virginia's constitution.
A lottery wheel acts as a single ticket in terms of a particular guarantee, but it allows playing with a set of numbers of size larger than the size of the set of numbers drawn in the lottery. In a lottery where N numbers are drawn, a lottery wheel requires a subset of at least N+1 numbers. For instance, in a pick-6 lottery, a wheel has 7 or ...
In a typical 6/49 game, each player chooses six distinct numbers from a range of 1–49. If the six numbers on a ticket match the numbers drawn by the lottery, the ticket holder is a jackpot winner—regardless of the order of the numbers. The probability of this happening is 1 in 13,983,816.
According to the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries, Americans spent over $113 billion on state lotteries in 2023, which averages about $437 per adult.
Former principal wins Virginia lottery — and weeks later learns it was $1 million prize ‘Maybe I won five or 10 dollars.’ Woman’s guess at VA lottery prize off by thousands
Five winning tickets worth $1 million were selected in Virginia’s New Year’s Millionaire Raffle, according to a Jan. 1 Virginia Lottery news release. Seven other tickets had $100,000 prizes ...
Lotto South was a lottery game in Georgia, Kentucky, and Virginia. It resulted from the September 2001 merger of three smaller jackpot games, one from each of the three lotteries. This was done in an attempt to create larger jackpots. Drawings took place at the WTVR-TV studios in Richmond, Virginia, on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 11:00 p.m. ET.