Since last Thursday, players across the state scratched and matched their way to more than $21 million in prizes.
Two tickets from the April 16 Carolina Cash 5 drawing matched all five numbers to split the $754,482 jackpot, the largest in the game since January of last year. Michael Scarlett of Lexington plans to use his $377,241 share to pay bills and buy his wife a Corvette convertible. {Read More} The second share of the jackpot was claimed by John Walker of Gastonia. {Read More}
Jill Stillwell of Dallas, N.C, and her husband, Woodrow, said a $242,935 Cash 5 jackpot that they won Wednesdaynight will mean a car for their grand-niece and a “cushion” for their savings account. {Read More}
Three players scratched their way to a six-figure prize this week.
Charles Benjamin of New Bern caught quite a few catfish and brim on Saturday morning, but the catch of the day would weigh in as a $150,000 lottery prize in the Trucks & Bucks game. {Read More}
Hildebran resident Emmett Willis III became the second player to claim the $150,000 top prize in the new Trucks & Bucks game. {Read More}
Over in Siler City, Fredy Gonzalez says he will use the $100,000 he won playing the Crossword 10X game to pay off the mortgage on his home. {Read More}
Thirteen more players won prizes of $10,000 to $80,849 this week. They are:
Hometown Winner Prize Won Game Played
Apex Mark Smith $50,000 Super Loteria
Creedmoor Summer Medlin $10,000 $200 Million Blowout
Granite Falls James Barnes $10,000 Powerball (3-28-15)
Greensboro Paul Topolka $10,000 100X The Cash
Greenville Kermit Lyle $10,000 $200 Million Blowout
Hudson Barbara Miller $10,000 Trucks & Bucks
Indian Trail Tamiko Redfern $80,849 Carolina Cash 5 (1-27-15)
Kannapolis Michael Hardin $20,000 $1,000,000 Jackpot
Lumberton Victor Brewington $60,335 Carolina Cash 5 (2-4-15)
Moravian Falls Warren Osborne $50,000 100X The Cash
Rocky Mount Karneilius Richardson $20,000 Diamonds 2X
Seagrove Philip Morgan $10,000 $200 Million Blowout
Winston-Salem Abelardo Diaz $10,000 $4,000,000 Multiplier Spectacular
From April 17 through April 23, instant players won $16.9 million and draw game players won more than $4.8 million, including $4.4 million from North Carolina draw games Pick 3, Pick 4, Cash 5 and All or Nothing. Mega Millions and Powerball players won more than $352,000 in prizes. In all, players won more than $21 million in prizes statewide.
Ticket sales have made it possible for the lottery to raise more than $3.6 billion for the state. Net proceeds will be used this year to help pay salaries of teachers and teacher assistants, for pre-kindergarten programs for at-risk four-year-olds, for school construction and repair, and need-based college scholarships and financial aid.
For details on how lottery funds have made a difference in each of North Carolina’s 100 counties, click on the “Where the Money Goes” tab on the lottery’s website.