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February 5, 2010
 What do automobile maintenance and winning the lottery have in common? Just ask Donald Minnix of Roanoke. While he was having some work done on his car, he played the Virginia Lottery’s $200,000 Gold Rush Scratcher game and won the top prize of $200,000.
“I kept staring at it and saying, ‘Is this right? Is this right?’” he told Lottery officials. “I’m still shaking.”
The retiree bought his winning ticket at Kroger, 5050 Rutgers Street in Roanoke.
$200,000 Gold Rush is one of dozens of Scratcher games currently offered by the Virginia Lottery. It features prizes ranging from $5 all the way up to $200,000. This is the first top-prize ticket to appear, which means there are four still unclaimed.
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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