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An old ticket won $100,000 in Virginia

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Old ticket won $100,000 in Virginia
Alfreda Hawkins, who lives in Richmond, Virginia, USA, found an old lottery ticket while cleaning a cabinet and won $100,000. This was reported by Zamin.uz.

The Metro publication reported on this. When Hawkins checked the tickets she found, one of them turned out to be a winner, which surprised her.

She expressed her feelings as follows: “I was stunned, it was truly a shocking situation.” She was presented with a large check for $100,000 at a special ceremony. According to the organizers, the odds of winning such a prize are 1 in 1,101,600.

So far, Hawkins has not decided how to spend the money. According to her, part of the funds may be used for family expenses, and the rest for leisure and travel.

This win was noted as an interesting event in the history of the Virginia lottery. Also, in September of this year, Kerry Edwards from Midlothian won $150,000 in the Virginia Lottery Powerball.

She consulted the AI-based ChatGPT neural network for number selection, but the win came from random numbers. These events once again confirmed that the lottery depends solely on luck and chance, and internet technologies do not guarantee winning.

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