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GLADSTONE, Va. — A quick trip for baking soda turned into a six-figure windfall for a Nelson County woman who scratched her way to a $100,000 top prize in the Virginia Lottery’s Lincoln game.

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Melinda Jacques purchased the winning ticket at Crossroads Express Mart, located at 2416 Piedmont Road in Gladstone. The Lincoln game offers prizes ranging from $5 up to $100,000, with Jacques claiming the third of four available top prizes.

The odds of winning the top prize are 1 in 765,000. The overall odds of winning any prize in the game are 1 in 3.9.

Jacques told Lottery officials the win “doesn’t feel real” as she redeemed her ticket.

Profits from the Virginia Lottery support K-12 education, with Nelson County receiving over $1 million in funding last fiscal year. In total, the Lottery contributed more than $934 million to Virginia’s public schools during Fiscal Year 2024.

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