Of the week’s biggest prize winners, three happen to hail from cities and towns in the Triad.
A Thomasville man who went out of his way to fuel up at a High Point store came away with more than a full tank of gas. Tyler Mabe won $750,000 on a ticket for the new edition of the Jumbo Bucks game that began this week. {Read More}
Randy Richardson, a resident of Seagrove in Randolph County, said the $487,632 jackpot he won in the Aug. 2 Carolina Cash 5 drawing will help him take a dream vacation across the country on a train. Richardson bought his lucky Quick Pick ticket from Murphy Oil USA on East Dixie Drive in Asheboro. {Read More}
William Beddick, a home renovator from Winston-Salem, says that he plans to use the $200,000 top prize he won playing the King’s Ransom game to help his family and start his own renovation business. “It feels fantastic,” Beddick said. “This is really going to set me up for the next stage of my life.” {Read More}
Maria Flores doesn’t live in the Triad, but she did win $200,000 on a Diamonds and Dollars ticket she bought at the Great Stops on West Market Street in Greensboro. The Washington D.C. resident is the first winner in the game since it began in July. {Read More}
The final six-figure prize winner of the week is Juliane Bump of Cullowhee in Jackson County. She plans to use the $150,000 she won playing the Trucks & Bucks game to help pay for her grandchildren’s education. She purchased the lucky $5 ticket at Pisgah Valley Market on Pisgah Highway in Candler. {Read More}
Also in the mountain region, two players from Asheville won $10,000 apiece playing instant games. Diane Israel won playing $200 Million Blowout and Jayantilal Patel won playing 100X The Cash.
Two players scratched their way to $50,000 prizes. Steven Dimuro of Graham won playing $200 Million Blowout and Rahma Boudloi ofRaleigh won playing Super Loteria.
Three players from the Charlotte area each claimed $10,000 prizes they won in recent Powerball drawings:
Hometown Winner Draw Date
Charlotte Susan Bork Aug. 1
Charlotte Miguel Gamez July 25
Kannapolis Ricky Yost July 15
Seven more players claimed $10,000 this week:
Hometown Winner Game Played
Battleboro Robert Mills $200 Million Blowout
Burgaw Beate Godwin $50 Mayhem
Cary Ana Becerra Millionaire 7’s
Gastonia Clinzo Davis 100X The Cash
Greensboro Cynthia Harrison Mega Millions (Aug. 4 drawing)
Morganton Geraldine Wilson $200 Million Blowout
Trenton Doris Kinsey Jumbo Bucks
Since July 31, instant players won $19.6 million and draw game players won $4.2 million, including $3.8 million from North Carolina draw games Pick 3, Pick 4, Cash 5 and All or Nothing. Mega Millions and Powerball players won more than $375,000 in prizes. Overall, players won $23.8 million this week.