CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Chesterfield resident Ana Reyes-Melendez isn’t a frequent scratcher of lottery games, so when she won the top prize on a game in early October, she wasn’t even sure she had a winner on her hands.
“I had to call my boyfriend because he knows more about it,” she said. “He said, ‘That looks like a winner!’”
And a winner it was. Reyes-Melendez bought the $100,000 winning ticket at the Midlothian Chubbys on Midlothian Turnpike in North Chesterfield.
“I’m not really a lottery person, like at all!” she told Virginia Lottery officials in a release.
The game she played, 10x the Money, has prizes ranging from $5 to 100,000. The odds of winning the top prize are 1 in 1,713,600. This is the first top-prize-winning ticket claimed in the game, 11 more remain.
