When Natalie Wright of Louisa plays Virginia Lottery games, she often just picks a random game.
“Whatever catches my eye, that’s what I play,” she told Lottery officials.
Now she has something that’s more than just a little eye-catching of her own: a brand-new 2009 Corvette® Convertible. She won it in the Virginia Lottery’s Corvette® Cash Scratcher game. She bought the winning ticket at LJ’s Market, located at 5815 Three Notch Road in Trevilians.
“When I first saw it, I didn’t realize it was a winner,” she said. “Afterward, I was calling people and telling them I won a car!”
On August 27, Virginia Lottery Executive Director Paula Otto handed Ms. Wright the keys to her new ’Vette at Herndon Chevrolet in Orange.
The Corvette® Cash Scratcher game features cash prizes up to $100,000 – and an additional six lucky scratch winners will receive the keys to a brand-new 2009 Corvette®.
That’s not all. Players can submit non-winning tickets for a second chance to win two additional Corvettes®, or exciting Corvette® merchandise prize packs, each of which includes a Corvette® leather jacket, cap, sunglasses, duffel bag and key chain. A total of 1,410 prize packs will be awarded in two drawings. A ninth ’Vette will be awarded during the Virginia Tech – Nebraska football game on September 19 at Lane Stadium in Blacksburg.
Ms. Wright is the first of six “instant-wins,” meaning players will scratch a ticket to reveal a Corvette® prize.
The Lottery is also taking Corvette® Cash on the road this summer, with special appearances at events across the Commonwealth. At those special events, players can enter the “Corvette® Lovers Summer Fun Sweepstakes” by buying four Corvette® Cash tickets to receive an entry form. Out of those entries, three finalists will be drawn to have a chance to win the ninth ’Vette at Lane Stadium.
For more information, including how to enter non-winning tickets in the second-chance drawings, visit www.valottery.com. The odds of scratching to win a Corvette® or one of three $100,000 cash prizes are 1 in 462,400. The odds of winning any prize in the Corvette® Cash game are 1 in 4.44.
