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May 4, 2010
 When is a shirt worth $100,000? When there’s a winning lottery ticket in the pocket! Just ask Glenn Lafferty of Moneta. When he discovered he had matched all five numbers in the Virginia Lottery’s Cash 5 game, he put the ticket in a safe place: his shirt pocket.
Mr. Lafferty bought the ticket for the April 21 Cash 5 night drawing at Kroger, 80 Westlake Road in Hardy. He used Easy Pick and allowed the computer to select his numbers randomly.
“It was pure luck,” he later told Virginia Lottery officials. The winning numbers for that drawing were 1-8-19-25-32.
Cash 5 drawings are held daily at 1:59 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. The chances of winning the $100,000 top prize are 1 in 278,256.
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 7 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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