$1 lottery ticket turns into huge jackpot prize in North Carolina. What to know
A North Carolina lottery player won a huge jackpot prize — but may not know it yet.
The player bought a Carolina Cash 5 ticket that matched all the numbers picked in the Sept. 1 drawing, making it worth more than $875,000, results show.
The winning numbers: 1-10-22-30-43.
The player is set to get richer after spending $1 to play the Cash 5 game online. The person who bought the lucky ticket is from Concord, a roughly 25-mile drive northeast from Charlotte, the N.C. Education Lottery wrote in an email to McClatchy News and on the social media platform X.
Cash 5 is a rolling jackpot game. To win the top prize, a player’s ticket must match all five numbers picked in the daily drawing, rules show.
The winner hit the jackpot on a lucky night in North Carolina. In the Powerball game, lottery players won $2 million and $50,000 prizes, McClatchy News reported.
As of early Sept. 3, the $875,300 prize hadn’t been claimed. In North Carolina, winners of drawing games have about six months to cash in, according to lottery officials.
