Here's your weekly wrap-up, courtesy of your friends at the Lucke-Zone:
There is lucky and then there is LUCKY!
A lucky streak for Asheville businesswoman Diane Israel began with a $500 win and ended with a $1 million prize playing $4,000,000 Cash Blowout.
“I had just won $500 on an Aces High ticket,” Israel said. “I went to the store after I cashed in the ticket and bought a $20 Cash Blowout ticket and won $20. I decided to try one more and scratched it off right then and there. I scratched off the numbers first and figured I had only won my money back. Then I scratched off the rest. I thought I was hallucinating. It was unbelievable.”
Since Thursday, Oct. 11, players of N.C. Education Lottery games won more than $15.4 million in prizes with more than $12.2 million awarded to winners of instant scratch-off games. Players of North Carolina draw games Pick 3, Pick 4 and Cash 5 won more than $2.7 million in total prizes.
The Powerball jackpot continued to climb this week. Saturday’s jackpot is an estimated $80 million if taken as an annuity or $52.6 million if taken as a lump sum.
Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot is an estimated $12 million if taken as an annuity or $9 million if taken as a lump sum.
Here's a breakdown of some of this week's big scratch-off winners:
- Olga Martinez and Daniel Stowe of Matthews and Charlotte won $50,000 playing Junior Big Ol' Bucks
- Monsera Flores of Monroe won $27,000 playing Electric 7's
- Todd Adams of Pfafftown won $10,000 playing Jumbo Bucks
- Steve Craver of Lexington won $10,000 playing Maximum Green
- Kelly Harper of Grimesland won $10,000 playing $5,000 a Week for Life!
- Charles Hyde of Catawba won $10,000 playing Greetings of Gold
- Donna Lockhart of Monroe won $10,000 playing $200,000 a Year for Life
- Kenneth Massey of Monroe won $10,000 playing Diamond 7s
- Michael Thomason of Thomasville won $10,000 playing $2,500 a Week for Life!
Be sure to check back next week as winners continue to pop up all the time! As always, have a safe and lucky weekend.
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I won $1,000 on the new Holiday Millions last week,and was kinda disappointed that I didnt get listed on the site anywhere and that they didnt offer to take and post my pic either,that was gonna be the most exciting part,for me!
I've bought about 10 tickets in a row that were losers on the $2,500 a week for life. They need to include more instant winners because I feel like giving up. It's a dumb strategy on their part not to even give us our $5 back on occasion.