RALEIGH – Two lottery tickets sold at Wake County stores won big prizes in Saturday's drawings.
A Powerball ticket worth $1 million was purchased at the Hasty Mart on South Main Street in Wake Forest. And 25 miles south, a Cash 5 ticket sold at the Garner Family Fare on U.S. 70 West won a $261,797 jackpot.
The lucky Powerball ticket matched all five white balls drawn, which were 8-10-26-27-33. The red Powerball was 22. The ticket beat odds of 1 in 11.7 million to win.
The Cash 5 ticket was the only one to beat odds of 749,398 to match all five numbers, which were 3-10-18-19-40.
Powerball players' next chance to win is Wednesday night. The jackpot annuity is $67 million, worth $40.4 million cash. Monday's Cash 5 jackpot is $110,000.
Ticket sales make it possible for the lottery to raise more than half a billion dollars a year for education. To discover how the funds support specific programs in every county, visit nclottery.com and click on the “For Education” page.