Lucky lottery players ‘break the bank' with combination in Virginia draw game
Lottery players won millions in a Virginia draw game with a quadruple number combination, lottery officials said.
The Pick 4 players 'had a bonanza' in the June 3 night drawing when the combination 4-4-4-4 was drawn, the Virginia Lottery said in a June 4 news release.
The players won a total of $7.9 million after wagering $438,939, according to the lottery, which said it paid out 18 times more than it took in for the drawing.
'Pick 4 players break the bank,' the lottery said when announcing the results.
'Quadruple numbers tend to be very popular in the Pick 4 game and are some of the most heavily wagered,' lottery officials said.
The odds of winning are 1 in 10,000, the lottery said.
If a player wages $1 and matches all four numbers, they win $5,000, according to lottery officials.
Drawings are held twice daily, according to the game's web page. The top prize as of June 4 is $5,000, lottery officials said.
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