Winner's reaction panics husband
By Kate Northrop
CHESTERFIELD, Va. — A Virginia woman's screaming reaction to a $1.7 million lottery prize brought her husband rushing into the room.
A lottery player wasn't the only one who felt the rush of the moment when she won $1.7 million in the lottery. Her husband felt it too, albeit a bit more panicked.
The anonymous Chesterfield woman bought lottery tickets at the local Sheetz convenience store earlier in the day, but her jackpot win surprisingly wasn't a result of those plays.
Rather, it was delivered by the Virginia Lottery's "Banker's Bonus Boost" game, one of several digital instant games available to play online. The game offers a Mega Money Jackpots Bonus game with a progressive jackpot that grows with every ticket purchase.
The Chesterfield resident didn't expect that she would be the one player to end up winning it all. Her reaction proved it when she saw the amount of $1,732,009 pop up on the display on July 15.
"I started screaming!" she told the Virginia Lottery.
Her screaming alerted her husband, who came running into the room to find out what was wrong. Instead, he looked at her computer screen.
"Breathe!" he told her.
The tickets she had purchased at Sheetz that same day happened to win her $100, but nothing prepared her to win a million-dollar jackpot within 24 hours.
Ticket prices for the "Banker's Bonus Boost" range from 10 cents to $5, with the odds of winning the top prize varying by price point.
The odds of winning any prize in the game per play are 1 in 4.47.
Congratulations!!
Shame on Virginia....allowing customers to gamble on their home devices! (You'd think other states would follow suit!)
still surprised by the fact VA allows one to remain anonymous, regardless of pot won
Congrats. I can't imagine what that feeling must be like seeing all those digits pop up on the screen. I fantasize about how I'd react to something major but you can't really know until you know.
Online seems like so much fun because it appears that it's not just about regular draw games but each state has made separate unique online only games.
Hopefully my state will get online. Maybe they have been secretly working on it for some time now and an announcement is coming soon.