“I thought, ‘Is this real?’"

When Christopher Leydic saw that the jackpot in the Virginia Lottery’s Cash 5 with EZ Match game had reverted to the game’s $200,000 starting point, he thought to himself, “Oh, somebody won it.” What the Chester man did not yet know was, HE was that winner. He matched all five winning numbers to win a jackpot worth $958,740. “It was unbelievable!” he later told Lottery officials. “I thought, ‘Is this real?’” He bought his winning ticket online. Read his story here.