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Northern VA Woman Wins $1.6M Playing VA Lottery: 'I Just Kept Hitting' Northern VA Woman Wins $1.6M Playing VA Lottery: 'I Just Kept Hitting'
Northern VA Woman Wins $1.6M Playing VA Lottery: 'I Just Kept Hitting' "One of these days, I'm going to hit it big." That's what Marion Campbell would say to herself. Well, the Ashburn woman can stop saying it, because it finally happened: Campbell won $1,630,146 playing the Virginia Lottery’s Marvelous Money: Vegas Nights game. She started playing, and winning, one night after work. “I just kept hitting,” she said. “It was kind of surreal!” Marvelous Money: Vegas Nights is one of dozens of online instant games available on the Virginia Lottery app and at valottery.com. The jackpot grows as more people play. The odds of winning any prize in this game a…

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Annandale Man Claims $1M Lottery Ticket Sold At 7-Eleven Annandale Man Claims $1M Lottery Ticket Sold At 7-Eleven
Annandale Man Claims $1M Lottery Ticket Sold At 7-Eleven Monna Islam was feeling lucky.  That’s the reason the Falls Church resident bought a 20X the Money ticket from the Virginia Lottery, according to a release on the VA Lottery website. He told Lottery officials that as he scratched the ticket, it looked like he was going to win $10 or $20. Then he discovered he’d just won the game’s $1 million top prize. He had the choice of taking the full $1 million prize over 30 years or a one-time cash option of $625,000 before taxes. He chose the cash option. Islam bought his winning ticket at the 7-Eleven at 201 South Washington Street in Falls C…

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Manassas Man Wins $100K Playing VA Lottery Manassas Man Wins $100K Playing VA Lottery
Manassas Man Wins $100K Playing VA Lottery A Manassas man is nearly $100,000 richer after playing the Virginia Lottery. “It feels outstanding! I couldn’t be happier!” That was Albert Stewart’s reaction as he redeemed his winning Powerball ticket for $100,000. The Manassas man matched five numbers in the February 28 drawing - four numbers plus the Powerball number. That would normally win $50,000. However, he spent an extra dollar for Power Play® when he bought the ticket, which doubled the prize to $100,000. He bought his ticket at the 7-Eleven at 13639 Dumfries Road in Manassas. The winning numbers were 16-26-29-38-50, and the P…

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'I Never Win': Virginia Beach College Student Wins Rare $500K Top Lottery Prize 'I Never Win': Virginia Beach College Student Wins Rare $500K Top Lottery Prize
'I Never Win': Virginia Beach College Student Wins Rare $500K Top Lottery Prize Lilian Gutierrez Silva doesn’t play scratcher games very often.  In fact, the Virginia Beach woman said she doesn’t even understand them. “I never win!” she said. However, when she was at Malbon Brothers Corner Mart on General Booth Boulevard in Virginia Beach, her cousin bought a ticket, so she decided to give it a try.  Her ticket ended up winning the $500,000 prize. “I showed the ticket to my cousin and said, ‘Tell me if I won or not,” she later told Virginia Lottery officials. Turns out, she’d just hit the top prize in the Funky Fortune game. Funky Fortune is one of dozens…

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Virginia Beach Man Wins $274K Playing Lottery Virginia Beach Man Wins $274K Playing Lottery
Virginia Beach Man Wins $274K Playing Lottery A Virginia beach man won big playing the lottery. John Szajnoga has games he likes more than the Magnificent Multiplier online game from the Virginia Lottery, but he decided to play it anyway, because of the jackpot amount.  That decision was worth $274,659. Long story short, he won. When Szainoga claimed his prize, he told Lottery officials, “It just felt amazing, and I was in total disbelief.” Szajnoga plans to put some of his winnings towards paying bills and his kids’ college and the rest into savings. Magnificent Multiplier features a progressive, growing jackpot and can be acc…

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