Monday’s Lucky for Life drawing produced a $1,000 A Day for Life top prize for one lucky winner who bought their ticket at a grocery store in Wake County.
The winning ticket was purchased at the Wegmans Food Market on Davis Drive in Morrisville.
The $2 ticket matched the numbers on all five white balls, 22-24-33-42-45, and the gold Lucky Ball number, 5, to beat odds of 1 in 30.8 million.
Winners of the Lucky for Life top prize have two options. They can receive an annuity of $365,000 a year guaranteed for the rest of the winner’s life, or take a lump sum of $5.75 million.
The winner has 180 days to claim their prize.
Lucky for Life tickets cost $2 and offers players 10 ways to win a prize. Drawings are held on Monday and Thursday nights.
Ticket sales from draw games make it possible for the lottery to raise more than $725 million per year for education. For details on how lottery funds have helped all of North Carolina’s 100 counties, click on the “Impact” section of the lottery’s website.