Nine players across the state scratched or matched their way to prizes from $150,000 to $3 million this week.
Jackpot Game Report
Players in this weekend’s Mega Millions and Powerball games have the chance to win a nine-figure jackpot.
Tonight’s Mega Millions jackpot is an estimated $194 million if taken as an annuity or $117 million if taken as a lump sum. The jackpot has rolled since the March 24 drawing when a player from New York claimed the $59 million jackpot.
Saturday’s Powerball jackpot is an estimated $138 million if taken as an annuity or $86.3 million if the lump sum option is chosen.
A lucky $2 Quick Pick Powerball ticket paid off in a big way to four Clinton residents this week. B.A. Gautier, Albert Smith, Joy Darden and Wilda Falatovich are celebrating after winning $1 million in Wednesday’s drawing. {Read More}
Big Winner Report
The biggest win of the week went to James Anthony Jr., a house painter from Cramerton. He plans to use the $3 million prize he won playing the $120 Million Cash game to get a captain’s license and purchase a boat to start a deep sea fishing charter business. {Read More}
Archdale resident Ronald Thompson is the latest player to win $1 million playing the 100X The Cash game. He scratched off the lucky $20 ticket after purchasing it at the TMM 2 store on U.S. 311 in Archdale on Sunday. {Read More}
The Stanly County town of Oakboro is home to nearly 2,000 people. One of those people, Jerry Owens, claimed a $1 million prize in the $200 Million Blowout game this week. {Read More}
Darrell Wessinger and Deborah Singletary of Selma are the latest players to win $1 million playing the $4,000,000 Multiplier Spectacular game. {Read More}
Carolina Cash 5 paid off in a big way to Gastonia resident Shanta Johnson, who matched all five numbers in the May 13 drawing to win the $357,433 jackpot. {Read More}
Two Fayetteville players had good luck playing instant scratch-off games this week.
Candace Hunt of Fayetteville considers May 14 to be her lucky day. Not only is it her birthday, but her son’s, as well. This year, after the birthday celebrations were over, she found yet another reason to smile when she scratched off the $200,000 top prize in the $200,000 Gold Rush game. {Read More}
Ronald Monroe, a community advocate from Fayetteville, is the first player to win the $150,000 top prize in the Emerald 7’s game. {Read More}
In the western part of the state, Heather Raimo, an accountant from Pineola, plans to use the $150,000 top prize she won on her MONOPOLY MILLIONAIRES’ CLUB™ ticket to pay bills, save for the future and maybe take a vacation. {Read More}
Rockingham residents Richard McFayden and his mother Katherine McFayden are the latest players to win the $150,000 top prize in the new $500 Mayhem game. {Read More}
Fifteen more players won prizes of $10,000 to $50,000 this week. They are:
Hometown Winner Prize Won Game Played
Cary Anthony Morgan $10,000 100X The Cash
Charlotte Jonathan White $25,000 Emerald 7’s
Conway, S.C. Ralph LaCarbonara $10,000 $1,000 a Week for Life!
Fayetteville Don Hanks $50,000 Junior Big Ol’ Bucks
Great Neck, N.Y. Fariborz Livian $10,000 Millionaire 7’s
Kernersville Paulito Quintanilla $10,000 Powerball (5-13-15)
Kings Mountain Steven Ramsey $10,000 50X The Cash
Lansing Violet Bare $20,000 $1,000,000 Jackpot
Locust Donald Freeman $10,000 $200 Million Blowout
Pittsboro Linda Cooper $10,000 $200 Million Blowout
Rockingham Maxine Utley $50,000 10X the Cash
Rockingham Thomas Brooks $10,000 100X The Cash
Statesville Billy White $10,000 100X The Cash
Union Mills Gary Lynch $10,000 100X The Cash
West Jefferson Mack Johnson $10,000 $120 Million Cash
From May 15 through May 21, instant players won $23.3 million and draw game players won $5.8 million, including $4.4 million from North Carolina draw games Pick 3, Pick 4, Cash 5 and All or Nothing. Since last weekend’s drawings, Mega Millions and Powerball players won more than $1.4 million in prizes. In all, players won more than $29.1 million in prizes statewide.