Lottery player thinks she won $1,000 in Virginia — but she missed some zeros
A Virginia lottery player thought she won $1,000, but after looking at the ticket again, she realized she’d missed a few zeros, lottery officials said.
“I started crying,” Deborah Bennett told the Virginia Lottery, according to a May 28 news release. “I thought, ‘this isn’t $1,000.’”
Bennett had won the top prize in the Lincoln scratch-off game, worth $100,000, lottery officials said.
She bought her ticket at a Food Lion grocery store in Palmyra, about a 60-mile drive northwest from Richmond, according to the lottery.
The odds of winning the jackpot in the Lincoln game are 1 in 765,000, and the overall odds of winning are 1 in 3.9, lottery officials said.
The game, which began Feb. 4, features prizes ranging from $5 to the top prize of $100,000, the lottery said.
Two of four top prizes remain in the game, according to lottery officials.
This story was originally published May 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM with the headline "Lottery player thinks she won $1,000 in Virginia — but she missed some zeros."
