Check
your tickets! Somewhere there is a ticket from the September 29 Powerball drawing
that is now worth $1 million. It was bought at the Food Lion at 1100 Courthouse Road
in Chesterfield
County.
The
winning numbers for that drawing were 14-18-28-29-57 and the Powerball number 8.
This ticket matched the first five numbers and missed only the Powerball
number.
Whoever has this winning ticket has 180 days from the
drawing date to claim the prize. The Virginia Lottery advises that before doing
anything else, the winner should immediately sign the back of the ticket to
establish ownership. When the person is ready to claim the million-dollar prize,
he or she should contact the Virginia Lottery at
804-692-7000.
Powerball drawings are held at 10:59 p.m. Wednesdays and
Saturdays. Powerball drawings are broadcast on TV stations across Virginia and live on www.valottery.com and on the Lottery's
Facebook page.
Other recent local winners:
Brent Smith
was feeling lucky when he walked into a store, appropriately named Lucky's. He
bought a pair of Queen of
Hearts tickets from the Virginia Lottery, scratched them and won
the top prize of $125,000.
"I
scratched the ticket, then I double and triple and quadruple-checked it," he
said as he claimed his prize.
He
bought the ticket at Lucky's – Woodlake, 14746 Village Square Place in Midlothian.
When
asked how he intends to spend his winnings, Mr. Smith replied, "I know that
we'll make good use of it."
Queen of Hearts is
one of dozens of games available from the Virginia Lottery. It features prizes
ranging from $5 all the way up to $125,000. This is the third top prize claimed
in Queen of Hearts, which means
two top-prize tickets are unclaimed.
Anh N.
Nguyen of North Chesterfield has an
interesting method of selecting the numbers on her Mega Millions ticket. She uses
her birthday and the hour in which she buys the ticket.
That's how she won $250,000 in the September 18 Mega
Millions drawing. Her ticket matched the first five numbers, missing only the
Mega Ball number.
She
bought the winning ticket at the 7-Eleven at 6131 Jefferson Davis Highway in Richmond.
The
winning numbers for that drawing were 5-9-22-36-49 and the Mega Ball number was
36. Her ticket was one of two in Virginia to match the first five numbers in
that drawing, and one of just five nationwide.
She
said she hopes to buy a new car with her winnings.
Mega
Millions drawings are held Tuesday and Friday nights at 11:00. Drawings are
broadcast on TV stations across Virginia and streamed live at www.valottery.com and on the Lottery's
Facebook page. The odds of winning the $250,000 prize in Mega Millions are 1 in
3,904,701.
Copyright 2012 by Young Broadcasting of Richmond
