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When Wassihun Woldeamanuel won the top prize in the Virginia Lottery’s Pick 4 game, he did it 40 times in the same drawing.
He bought 40 plays in the February 20 day drawing, each with the same four-digit combination: 4-4-4-4.
The prize for matching all four winning numbers in the Pick 4 game is $5,000. Since he had 40 plays with the winning combination, he won a total of $200,000.
“I knew four is coming,” he told Lottery officials as he redeemed his winning tickets.
He bought 30 of those tickets at Giant Food, located at 2901-11 South Glebe Road in Arlington, and the other ten at Tiger Market and Bakery, located at 3903 Mount Vernon Avenue in Alexandria.
Pick 4 drawings are held daily at 1:59 p.m. and 11 p.m. The top prize for a $1 play is $5,000. The chances of matching all four numbers in exact order are 1 in 10,000.
Earlier this week, a Powerball ticket good for a million bucks was sold at an Alexandria Safeway.
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