Lottery player wonders if he ‘wrote a number down wrong.' Turns out, he won big
When a man watching a Virginia Lottery drawing one night saw his numbers come up, he wondered if he'd made a mistake.
But he really won the jackpot.
Dwight Davis matched all five numbers in the Cash 5 with EZ Match drawing on June 2 and won the top prize of $255,000, the Virginia Lottery announced June 16.
The Norfolk man often watches the drawings live, but this time, the numbers that came up looked familiar.
'I said, 'Wait a minute,'' he told lottery officials. ''Either I wrote a number down wrong, or I got this.''
Davis' Cash 5 ticket, which he bought at a local Food Lion grocery store, beat the 1-in-1,221,759 odds of matching five numbers ranging from one to 45, according to the Virginia Lottery.
Norfolk is part of the Hampton Roads area on the southern coast of Virginia.
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