Two unrelated Stafford women won the top prizes for two different lottery games and both plan on spending it on a new house.
 Anya Dennis received a phone call from her husband excitingly telling her that they matched all five numbers for the Cash 5 Lottery Game. According to a Virginia Lottery press release, the couple had bought 12 tickets for an upcoming June 14 drawing with all the same numbers.
Since they had won the top prize of $100,000 for those exact five numbers they chose 12 tickets for, they won total winnings of $1.2 million, according to Virginia Lottery's press release. When officials at Virginia Lottery asked about Dennis' reaction, she stated the following:
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