Two lottery players score life-changing prizes in NC. Where were lucky tickets sold?
Two lottery players are set to get richer after a lucky weekend in North Carolina.
Each of the players bought a Carolina Cash 5 game ticket that matched enough numbers to be worth over $100,000, the N.C. Education Lottery told McClatchy News in an email and wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. Here’s where the tickets came from:
- $186,338 ticket sold at the Quick Pantry convenience store in Columbus
- $110,000 ticket sold online to a lottery player in Stanley
Cash 5 is a rolling jackpot game that offers tickets starting at $1. To score the jackpot prize, a player’s ticket must match all the numbers picked in a drawing, lottery officials wrote on their website.
The $110,000 winner hit the jackpot in the Feb. 16 drawing, two nights after the game’s other winner scored a bigger prize on Valentine’s Day. Here are the winning numbers from over the weekend:
- Feb 14 drawing: 6-14-36-39-41
- Feb. 16 drawing: 10-17-29-30-38
As of early Feb. 17, the two Cash 5 prizes remained unclaimed. In North Carolina, the winners of drawing games have about six months to cash in, rules show.
Stanley is a roughly 20-mile drive northwest from uptown Charlotte. Meanwhile, Columbus is a roughly 85-mile drive west from Charlotte.
This story was originally published February 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM with the headline "Two lottery players score life-changing prizes in NC. Where were lucky tickets sold?."
