Clerk prints wrong ticket for Virginia lottery player. Mistake pays off in a big way
Mark Black went into the Greenway Market in Roanoke to buy a lottery ticket.
Instead of the ticket he asked for, the clerk handed him a different one by mistake.
“Aww, let’s go ahead and take it,” Black told lottery officials.
The mistake paid off – big.
The $20 Print ‘n Play Dazzling Doubler Virginia Lottery ticket was the winner of a $250,000 prize, according to a July 6 release from the Virginia Lottery.
“It was pretty exciting,” Black told officials. “My hands started shaking.”
The odds of winning any prize in the game are 1 in 2.98, but the odds of winning the top prize are 1 in 480,000.
Black, a recent retiree, told officials he was going to use the money to move down the street.
Roanoke is about 165 miles west of Richmond.
This story was originally published July 12, 2023 at 4:30 PM with the headline "Clerk prints wrong ticket for Virginia lottery player. Mistake pays off in a big way."
