Yet another Powerball ticket sold in North Carolina matched five white balls to win big last night. A lucky player bought the ticket from The Border Station on Caratoke Highway in Moyock (Currituck County). Three other big winning tickets for last night's drawing, worth $10,000 each, were sold in Smithfield, High Point, and Arden.
In the ten Powerball drawings since the start of July, six tickets sold in North Carolina have matched five white balls to win large prizes. Four of those tickets won $200,000 and two $2 Power Play tickets won $1 million each. This is remarkable considering the odds of just one ticket matching all five white balls are greater than 1 in 5 million… and it’s happened six times in five weeks… all here in North Carolina!
The $200,000 prizes claimed so far have gone to winners from Mooresville and Swannanoa. The other two – which were sold in Asheville and Moyock – have yet to be claimed. We hope to meet those winners soon. Power Play prizes of $1 million were awarded to winners from Kannapolis and Greensboro.
Another winner claimed a $200,000 Powerball prize in July, for a drawing earlier this year. A man from Flowery Branch, GA was on a business trip in Raleigh where he bought a Powerball ticket for the Feb. 12 drawing, and wound up matching five white balls to win the big prize.
The estimated jackpot for Saturday's Powerball drawing is $180 million. It has been rolling since the July 2 drawing when a single ticket matched all six numbers to win $77.1 million in the June 29 drawing. Will North Carolina add another five ball match? Or maybe the state’s fourth Powerball jackpot winner? Stay tuned to the Lucke-Zone, and good luck to everyone.
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