$100K Top Prize In VA Lottery Game Won By Retired Fredericksburg Teacher

FREDERICKSBURG, VA — A retired schoolteacher from Fredericksburg scratched her way to the $100,000 top prize in the Virginia Lottery’s Money Tree game.

Kimberly Kemp purchased the winning scratch-off ticket while grocery shopping at the Giant Food Store located at 35 Town and Country Road in Fredericksburg.

“I scratched it and said, ‘Something must be wrong,” she told Lottery officials, recounting the moment she realized she was a big winner.

Kemp’s ticket was the final top prize in the Money Tree game, which means the game is now closed, according to the Virginia Lottery. The chances of winning one of the three top prizes in the game was 1 in 1,020,000, while the chances of winning any prize were 1 in 4.26.

Proceeds from the Virginia Lottery benefit K-12 education in the commonwealth. During the last fiscal year, Stafford County, where Kemp lives, received more than $18.4 million in education funding from the lottery.