9-9-9-9 in Virginia Lottery Pick 4 produces huge $8.7 million payout

Sep 2, 2022, 5:19 pm (20 comments)

Virginia Lottery

Lucky quad delights players across the state

By Kate Northrop

A Virginia Lottery Pick 4 drawing produced a lucky combination this week, sparking an impressive payout of $8.7 million to players holding winning numbers.

On Wednesday, the Virginia Lottery's Pick 4 Day drawing produced the winning numbers 9-9-9-9, no doubt leaving many players in the state in a happy mood.

Winning tickets on a $1 wager won $5,000 in the August 31 afternoon drawing, while winning tickets on a fifty-cent wager won $2,500.

According to the Lottery, players wagered a total of $451,628 in the drawing and won over $8.7 million in total prizes.

Number combinations with the same four digits are often called "quads" and are a popular choice among lottery players, which is why the prize payout in this Pick 4 drawing is larger than usual.

"Certain number combinations can have special significance for particular lottery players, such as birthdays," Virginia Lottery spokesperson John Hagerty told Lottery Post. "Quads are some of the most heavily wagered numbers."

The odds of matching all four numbers in a Pick 4 drawing are 1 in 10,000. Players can view a complete list of odds and prize payouts for Pick 4 by visiting the Prizes and Odds page.

Players who won prizes the momentous drawing have 180 days from the draw date on Aug. 31 to claim their winnings.

The Lottery holds Pick 4 drawings twice a day, once at 1:59 pm EST and again at 11:00 pm EST. Players may choose their own four numbers or select the Quick Pick (Easy Pick) option to allow the computer to choose numbers for you.

Lottery Post Staff

Comments

Bleudog101

So nice they don't have two things:   RNG and Liability limit for their drawings; we'd never see that much won in KY.

noise-gate

* l have renewed faith in humanity after reading this Jeff.

 

"   winning tickets on a fifty-cent wager won $2,500. " 

 

ekem6078's avatarekem6078

WOW. Come on Tennessee. "Let  em drop" $$$$

ekem6078's avatarekem6078

Congratulations north -gate

Mata Garbo

September 9th, 1999...........that was a very good birthday number for someone this week. Birthdays are so hard to hit. Congrats to everyone who had a part in the 8.7 million dollar cash haul. I hope some of you played 10 or 20 dollars on it. 

🔢

jackpotismine's avatarjackpotismine

I like how they mention the payout and never mention how much they took in. The house always wins.

Todd's avatarTodd

Quote: Originally posted by jackpotismine on Sep 2, 2022

I like how they mention the payout and never mention how much they took in. The house always wins.

For quads, I think the state actually loses money on the drawing.

jackpotismine's avatarjackpotismine

Quote: Originally posted by Todd on Sep 2, 2022

For quads, I think the state actually loses money on the drawing.

I didn't think could ever lose money considering they have a cap on each number, I think.

MrLotto$

Those are some lucky happy campers especially the ones that play $20 separate tickets tickets or more like they do in New York, actually some people play $100 worth of tickets the same number.. wonder how long they been playing that 9999

MrLotto$

180 days to claim that's it? We get double that in New York plus 5 days. but who needs that long? Give me less than a week and my ticket is cashed..

JAMORA's avatarJAMORA

Quote: Originally posted by Todd on Sep 2, 2022

For quads, I think the state actually loses money on the drawing.

The "drawing". All those quads get played daily by some players. Day after day, draw after draw.

They may have lost on that "draw", but they certainly rake in on the regular, lol. But that's gambling, and these folks that play quads regularly never really gain much, if any. The odds are really bad.

MsBee18

I tried, but may never get the allure of Pick4. It's baloney at the end of the day. But I may be jaded. LoL

Todd's avatarTodd

Quote: Originally posted by jackpotismine on Sep 2, 2022

I didn't think could ever lose money considering they have a cap on each number, I think.

The lottery actually loses money on the drawing, even with the cap.  The cap prevents them from losing twice or three times as much as what they would lose if there was no cap.

The only states that do not lose money on a quad hit is a state like New Jersey or California that uses pari-mutuel payouts for the prizes.

Cassie8620's avatarCassie8620

Quote: Originally posted by JAMORA on Sep 3, 2022

The "drawing". All those quads get played daily by some players. Day after day, draw after draw.

They may have lost on that "draw", but they certainly rake in on the regular, lol. But that's gambling, and these folks that play quads regularly never really gain much, if any. The odds are really bad.

I've played off/on per every other few days add in Triple 999's (with a zero)or 1, for NC pick 4 and past week or 2 adding in 9999 and now i see it hit, in Virginia? I hope NC it will soon.

 

Jamora:

 

I agree. Definitely rake it in $ on the regular, however, Jamora,

 

I still smile big in all states, knowing the state still lose big (once in a blue moon) at times.😊

 

i am happy this hit for many  1 state over iN VA.

 

i hope some played it, more than 1x, but even one off of a dollar (or) a .50 cent bet is nice.

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