Lottery player asks daughter to ‘make sure I’m not crazy.’ He won top prize in Virginia

When a lottery player scratched his ticket in his kitchen, he asked his daughter to make sure he wasn’t seeing things.

But what the ticket seemed to reveal was real. He had won a jackpot prize of $100,000, the Virginia Lottery said in an Oct. 23 news release.

“I feel it hasn’t really happened,” Michael Dunbar told lottery officials.

It almost didn’t. When Dunbar bought his Extra Play ticket for $5 at a convenience store in Floyd, he left it on the counter and walked out, he told lottery officials. He had to run back inside, and luckily found the ticket sitting where he had left it.

He scratched it at home, revealing the major win.

“I asked my daughter to look at the ticket and make sure I’m not crazy,” he told lottery officials.

The odds of winning one of the three top prizes in the game are 1-in-1,305,600, according to the Virginia Lottery. One prize of $100,000 remains.

Floyd County is in southwest Virginia.