NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – “I started to hyperventilate!” That was Christina Lovett’s reaction when she scratched off the lottery ticket she had just bought at the Walmart on Grassfield Parkway in Chesapeake.
Lovett told Virginia Lottery officials she decided to stop at the store to pick up a few things on her way home from work. While there, the Norfolk woman decided to buy a Wild Cash lottery ticket.
She scratched off the ticket in her car. When she realized she was the top prize winner, she told Lottery officials, “It felt unreal!”
Lovett had just become the first $500,000 top prize winner of the Wild Cash game. The game features prizes ranging from $10 up to $500,000. The chances of winning the top prize are 1 in 612,000. The chances of winning any prize in the game are 1 in 4.01. Since this is the first top prize claimed, two more are unclaimed…