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$200K Win For Arlington Man Who Picked 4x4 On VA Lottery's Pick 4 Game
An Arlington man multiplied his top-prize win in the Feb. 20 Pick 4 drawing by playing the same number on 40 tickets.
ARLINGTON, VA — An Arlington man won $200,000 by taking the Virginia Lottery's Pick 4 game literally.
Wassihun Woldeamanuel won the Pick 4 game's top prize of $5,000 by playing the four-digit combination 4-4-4-4 in the Feb. 20 drawing. Fortunately for him, he played the winning combination 40 times for that same drawing, which multiplied his total prize to $200,000.
“I knew four is coming,” he told Lottery officials, when he redeemed his winning tickets.
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Woldeamanuel purchased 30 of the tickets at the Giant Food store located at 2901-11 South Glebe Road in Arlington. The remaining 10 tickets he bought at Tiger Market and Bakery at 3903 Mount Vernon Avenue in Alexandria.
Proceeds from the Virginia Lottery helps fund K-12 education across the state. In 2023, the lottery raised more than $867 million for K-12 education, with Arlington receiving more than $5 million.
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