3$500K Wild Cash win stuns Virginia lottery player

VINTON, VA – A routine morning took a dramatic turn for a Roanoke County man who picked up a penny from the ground and moments later scratched off a winning lottery ticket worth $500,000.

The man purchased a Wild Cash scratcher at the Shop In store located at 7865 Jordantown Road in Vinton in the early hours of Sunday. After scratching the ticket in the parking lot, he discovered he had hit the game’s top prize. Overcome with shock, he reportedly celebrated outside the store before heading back inside to embrace the store clerk.

The win marks the second of three top prizes available in the Wild Cash game, which offers a grand prize of $500,000. The odds of winning the top prize are 1 in 612,000, while the overall odds of winning an

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