Lottery winner in Virginia mistakes $100K payout for $100

A player in Virginia was somewhat taken aback to find out that he had misread his lottery jackpot win, arriving to collect what he expected to be just $100. However, the winner was in for a surprise when he discovered that what was thought to be a humble reward turned out to be gobs of cash instead.

The unsuspecting Virginia resident, Teddy Breheim, had in fact won $100,000 from the $326,000,000 Fortune scratch game. Although the Norfolk resident missed the $5,000,000 top prize (which adds further confusion to the game’s name, we know), he settled for one of the best possible outcomes still.

Breheim cannot be blamed for missing the big payday either, as the odds of securing the $5,000,000 jackpot are quite long – 1 in 2,774,400. The winning ticket was sold at Rite Aid at 2040 Atlantic Avenue in Chesapeake.

In the meantime, the $326,000,000 Fortune game is one of the biggest contributors to the state’s lottery, although it was only launched in October 2022, and has been going at full throttle ever since.

This is hardly the first time you will hear about a player from Virginia scooping up the reward.

A player from the state won just last week when Tamika McGill was in bed and checking on some tickets she had purchased from the M&T Market on 2711 Kecoughtan Road in Hampton.

As it turns out, she had won $100,000, but unlike Breheim, she was immediately aware of the fact and the full sum of her win. The Virginia Lottery has recently announced that it had contributed $934m to K-12 public education in the financial year 2024, constituting 10% of the education budget for such establishments.

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