WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — On Christmas morning, a Williamsburg woman got quite the surprise: a winning Virginia Lottery ticket!
Harriet Harris scratched the Super 5s ticket, she discovered she’d won the game’s $500,000 top prize. Her nephew slipped the ticket into her stocking.
“This is a wonderful, wonderful happening,” she said as she claimed the prize a few weeks after Christmas. “It still hasn’t sunk in yet.”
She is the third and final top prize winner in the Super 5s game. It’s the Virginia Lottery’s policy to end Scratcher games after the last top prize ticket is claimed.
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The odds of winning the top prize in Super 5s were 1 in 652,800, while the odds of winning any prize were 1 in 3.38.
The winning ticket was bought at Lightfoot I-64 Pit Stop in Lightfoot. The store receives a $10,000 bonus for selling the ticket.
The Virginia Lottery generates more than $1.7 million per day for Virginia’s K-12 public schools. Operating entirely on revenue from the sale of Lottery products, the Lottery generated a record $650 million for Virginia’s public schools in Fiscal Year 2019.
