For Charles Darkwah of Greensboro, a set of lucky numbers resulted in a $159,905 Cash 5 jackpot win.
Darkwah has been using the same numbers on every Cash 5 ticket for the last several months. It finally paid off when he bought a ticket for the April 15 drawing.
Darkwah claimed the jackpot Monday at lottery headquarters in Raleigh. After federal and state tax withholdings, he took home $110,597.
Darkwah bought the $1 ticket at the Speedway on West Friendly Avenue in Greensboro. He beat the odds of 1 in 575,757 to win the jackpot.
Ticket sales from games like Cash 5 made it possible for the lottery to raise more than half a billion dollars for the state last year. For details on how almost $207.8 million in lottery funds has made a difference in Guilford County, click on the “For Education” section of the lottery’s website.