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May 6, 2010
 When Patricia Howell of Portsmouth won $100,000 in the Virginia Lottery’s Cash 5 game, she had to ask someone if she was doing it right. You see, she had never played the game before.
“It feels great,” she told Lottery officials. “I’m very happy!”
The ticket that she bought at Mayview Shell, 3500 High Street in Portsmouth, matched all five numbers in the April 25 day drawing. She used Easy Pick, allowing the computer to randomly select her numbers. The winning numbers were 4-7-8-22-34.
Ms. Howell, who works as an office manager, said she plans to save her winnings.
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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