Winner credits feeling about certain lucky numbers
By Kate Northrop
CHESAPEAKE, Va. — A Virginia lottery player is walking away from a single Pick 4 drawing with $175,000 in winnings after buying 35 tickets.
In just one Virginia Lottery Pick 4 drawing, a lucky player is taking home an impressive $175,000 prize won with 35 winning tickets.
Marcy Garcia, of Chesapeake, had the right idea to put down $35 for 35 identical plays for the Pick 4 daytime drawing on March 30.
Every one of those tickets contained the four-digit combination 5-2-0-1 and each won the game's $5,000 top prize when those same numbers came up in exact order in the March 30 daytime drawing, earning her a remarkable sum of $175,000.
"I just couldn't even believe it!" she told the Lottery when recalling the moment her numbers were drawn. "My heart started racing!"
Garcia said that her choice to buy 35 identical plays for one drawing can simply be attributed to a lucky feeling.
"I feel like certain numbers are lucky," she explained. "I feel like it's my best chance at winning a lot of money."
Garcia's purchase of her winning tickets was split between two stores — the Harris Teeter supermarket on Greenbriar Parkway in Chesapeake and the Food Lion grocery store on Campostella Road in Chesapeake.
There have been other instances of Virginia Lottery Pick 4 players emerging from a single draw with an astonishing number of top prize wins. One winner won a total of $1 million in one drawing in September 2022 after buying 200 identical tickets that each ended up winning the game's $5,000 top prize.
The lucky winner said she plans on saving the prize and will eventually use it to buy a house.
The odds of matching all four numbers straight in Pick 4 are 1 in 10,000. Virgina Pick 4 drawings take place twice a day at 2:00 pm EST and 11:00 pm EST. Tickets cost $1 each.
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She said certain numbers are lucky.... And she had a feeling. Why she chose that specific drawing to go 35 straight--- luck was. Definitely with her!!! Way to go !!!!
Congrats to her ! I also hope it may be someone from Lp that got lucky !
May she have may more Wins like this one!
Gutsy move, congrats to the lucky lady, I hope she does it again.
This happens a lot in VA. I remember of the story of the one guy that hit for 900k
A while back a thread was started about having an extra $1000 to splurge on lottery tickets and maybe Marcy Garcia had a similar idea. BobP has a thread, "How much would you invest" that's about the same type of thinking.
Any pick 4 straight hit will wake us up, hitting after betting three or four bucks is even better, but winning over $100,000 after taxes is in another ball park.
I've done this before...it be like a dream ❤️
I had 20.00 on 1 number and almost had a heart attack when it came out. What a feeling!
aw. great, another one in VA., one in a gigantic way $$$
The ONLY real way to play.
Love my Multi-wins on a Pick 4,
so, I am very happy she did this, astutely, and prudently, where, last week,
we had one winner on Mega smh and some spent so much to win at Mega Power games, yet, Pick 4 is turning out so many winners. I love to see this, I really do.
P4 is sure not a rip off, better odds, and again congrats!
Please invest wisely.
Sometimes you just know it's gonna hit, and you just gotta go for it!!
Congrats to her!!
Great to see this story! I press the 4 way but NOT 35 ST plays.
Wunderbar Siel meister !
The idea is to remember it's just a game not a stressful job, so do loosen up and enjoy the low risk to high reward dream plays -
enjoy the numeric amusement :-)
that's the way to do it !`
when you get the sign/feeling go heavy!
there is also a article from March about a Virginia man winning pick 4 numbers he played 20x
Anybody else put a couple bucks on 5201?