Donna Gray of Mount Pleasant played a Digital Instant game for the first time and won a $1,939,727 jackpot.

“I’ve bought scratch-offs over the years but this was the first time trying this,” she said.

Gray played for $1 on Aug. 1 and won the jackpot in the PowerMax Cash game. The odds of that win were 1 in 150 million.

“It started rolling and just kept rolling,” she recalled. “I thought it would be like $100 or something.”

Gray told her husband as soon as she could.

“I said, ‘I won big,’ but he didn’t believe me,” Gray laughed. “It took us both a couple days to believe it.”

She claimed her prize Tuesday at lottery headquarters and, after required federal and state tax withholdings, took home $1,396,798.

Gray plans to invest her winnings.

In the PowerMax Cash Digital Instant game, a player can play from 50 cents to $50. The current jackpot as of Thursday morning stands at over $337,000.

Digital instant games are played exclusively online on the lottery’s website or on the NC Lottery Official Mobile App. Eighty-nine different games are available to play online now.

Education programs in Cabarrus County received $16 million in support from lottery funds last year. For details on how lottery funds have made a difference in all of North Carolina’s 100 counties, visit www.nclottery.com and click on the “Impact” section of the lottery’s website.