The first time was a charm for a Virginia woman who recently won a $50,000 lottery ticket.
Caitlin Berland of Yorktown, Virginia, was running errands in mid-April when she decided to buy her first lottery ticket.
As it turned out, this was a good decision. Her ticket was the winner of the April 14 Pick 5 game drawing.
According to the Virginia Lottery’s website, Pick 5 tickets will be sold for $0.50 or $1, and players can choose between “any order,” “exact order,” or a combination of the two. is.
According to the Berland Lottery website, Berland’s ticket matched the numbers in the exact order 2-9-4-2-3, meaning she won the top prize of $50,000. It is said that there is
According to the group, the odds of getting the five numbers in the correct order are 1 in 100,000.
According to the lottery’s website, the Pick 5 drawing will be held twice a day at 1:59 p.m. and 11 p.m.
Berland told the Virginia Lottery that he plans to use his winnings to help pay for his sister’s college tuition.
The Virginia Lottery was established in 1987 after Virginians voted in favor of creating a state-run lottery.
The first tickets were sold the following year, according to the Virginia Lottery website.
Since 1999, Virginia Lottery profits have supported K-12 public education in the commonwealth, according to the Virginia Lottery’s website.
In 2023, this amounted to more than $867 million, which went toward public education in the state.
This represents about 10% of the federal budget for K-12 schools, according to the Virginia Lottery’s website.
These funds are distributed throughout Virginia’s counties.
“M.S. Berland lives in York County, which received more than $5.3 million in lottery funds for K-12 education last school year,” the Virginia Lottery said.
Virginia Lottery’s revenue for fiscal year 2023 was $4.6 billion.
More than $3.5 billion of those sales were divided between lottery winners and the retailers who sold the winning tickets, according to the lottery’s website.
FOX Business asked the Virginia Lottery for additional information about the game and prize structure.
