Manassas Woman Wins $1 Million in VA Lottery's Millionaire Maker

MANASSAS, VA — Kelly Coyne was on a winning streak. The Manassas woman had played a Scratcher game from the Virginia Lottery and won $30. So she used part of the winnings to buy another ticket, and this time won $50. That’s when she decided to buy a third ticket: Millionaire Maker.

When she scratched that ticket, she discovered she’d won the $1 million top prize.

“I showed it to the store owner,” she told Lottery officials. “He said, ‘Congratulations, Kelly. Now put it away and go home!’”

Coyne told the Virginia Lottery that she intends to use her winnings to take care of her family.

She bought her winning ticket at Manassas Mall Exxon, located at 8289 Sudley Road in Manassas. The store receives a $10,000 bonus from the Virginia Lottery for selling the winning ticket.

She had the choice of taking the full $1 million in annual payments over 30 years or a one-time cash option of $601,684 before taxes. She chose the cash option.

Millionaire Maker features prizes ranging from $30 to $1 million. The odds of winning the top prize are 1 in 244,800, while the odds of winning any prize in this game are 1 in 2.78. This is the eighth top prize claimed in the Millionaire Maker game, which means two more remain unclaimed.

The Virginia Lottery generates more than $1.7 million per day for Virginia’s K-12 public schools.