Virginia Lottery Winner Nets $200K In Potomac Falls

STERLING, VA—Two lottery tickets. Five numbers. Together, those two things worked out quite nicely for William Johnson of the Potomac Falls area.

Namely, he won $200,000 in the Virginia Lottery's Cash 5 game. Johnson used the same numbers on both tickets, and thus claimed two top prizes of $100 grand apiece.

He's planning to retire next year after more than 50 years with the same company, and now has something to make retirement a bit more palatable. "I just had a smile on my face yesterday," he told Lottery officials while having his tickets ratified.

His winning numbers were 8-15-18-26-33, and he bought the tickets in the Super Giant at 43670 Greenway Corporate Drive. His chances of winning were 1 in 278,256.

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