Lottery player wonders if he ‘wrote a number down wrong.’ Turns out, he won big

When a man watching a Virginia Lottery drawing one night saw his numbers come up, he wondered if he’d made a mistake.

But he really won the jackpot.

Dwight Davis matched all five numbers in the Cash 5 with EZ Match drawing on June 2 and won the top prize of $255,000, the Virginia Lottery announced June 16.

The Norfolk man often watches the drawings live, but this time, the numbers that came up looked familiar.

“I said, ‘Wait a minute,’” he told lottery officials. “‘Either I wrote a number down wrong, or I got this.’”

Davis’ Cash 5 ticket, which he bought at a local Food Lion grocery store, beat the 1-in-1,221,759 odds of matching five numbers ranging from one to 45, according to the Virginia Lottery.

Norfolk is part of the Hampton Roads area on the southern coast of Virginia.

This story was originally published June 17, 2025 at 7:11 AM with the headline "Lottery player wonders if he ‘wrote a number down wrong.’ Turns out, he won big."