Couple stopped at a store during road trip — then won big in Virginia lottery
A quick pit stop turned into the jackpot for lucky Gary Kimball and his wife during their road trip to Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
The couple from Dover, Delaware, were driving to visit her property in Virginia when they decided to pull into a Kings Cigarette and Tobacco in Accomack County, according to lottery officials.
During their stop, Kimball bought a Super 7s lottery ticket. As he scratched off the numbers, the shock set in. He had won the top prize of $177,777.
“I saw it, and I couldn’t believe it!” he told lottery officials.
Kimball asked the store clerk to check the ticket himself, just in case his eyes were playing a trick on him.
“I think you won the big one!” the clerk said, according to officials.
Kimball beat the 1 in 1,632,000 odds to win the top prize in the Super 7s game, in which winnings range from $1 to $177,777, according to the Virginia Lottery.
This story was originally published February 10, 2022 at 2:47 PM with the headline "Couple stopped at a store during road trip — then won big in Virginia lottery."
