A Carolina Cash 5 jackpot and five big instant scratch-off winners highlight a week that brought more than $25 million in prizes to lottery players across the state.
The biggest winner of the week is also the biggest winner of 2014 thus far. Though Jimmy Kennovin, a businessman who owns an HVAC company in Garner, has a lot of plans for the $4 million prize he won playing the $4,000,000 Multiplier Spectacular game, he says that his daily life will remain the same.
The second player to win a seven-figure prize this week was Martha Harrison of Asheville, the latest player to win $1 million playing the $4,000,000 Multiplier Spectacular game. She purchased the lucky ticket at the Citistop on Merrimon Avenue in Asheville.
Margarita Mink, a McDonald’s manager from Clayton, said she plans to use the $386,019 jackpot she won playing Carolina Cash 5 to make some investments, some home repairs and go visit her family in Spain.
EMS worker Larry Smith of Rocky Mount says he plans to use the $200,000 he won playing the Break the Bank game to pay bills, pay down his mortgage, purchase a new car for his wife and have some fun.
Andrew Noga, a shoe salesman from Lexington, plans to use the $150,000 prize he won in the Caesars game to buy a car and go back to school. “I drove straight home and woke up my mom,” Andrew Noga said. “I said ‘Mom, I think my life just changed.’”
Our final big winner of the week is Jayoti Patel, a homemaker from Cary. She is the most recent player to win $150,000 in the White Hot 5’s instant game. After buying the ticket at the Lake Wheeler Quality Food Mart, she scratched it off in the store. That’s when she realized she won the top prize.
Instant scratch-off players in North Carolina won more than $19.9 million in prizes since Thursday, Sept. 25. During that time, players of draw games won more than $5.1 million in total prizes.
Sixteen prizes awarded were worth between $10,000 and $50,000. They are:
- Linda Martin of Belhaven: $10,000 (Millionaire 7’s)
- Lyneise Williams of Chapel Hill: $10,000 (10/1/14 Powerball drawing)
- Elbert Smith of Elizabethtown: $10,000 ($4,000,000 Multiplier Spectacular)
- Dawn Denham of Fayetteville: $50,000 (9/27/14 Carolina Cash 5 drawing)
- Anthony Sterling of Fayetteville: $20,000 ($1,000,000 Jackpot)
- Tony Morehead of High Point: $10,000 (9/24/14 Powerball drawing)
- Donald Thomas of Huntersville: $10,000 ($4,000,000 Multiplier Spectacular)
- Erica Fludd of Moncks Corner, SC: $50,000 (9/28/14 Carolina Cash 5 drawing)
- Grey Cook of Mooresville: $10,000 (9/20/14 Powerball drawing)
- Frank Ballard of Raleigh: $20,000 (10/1/14 Powerball drawing)
- Dennis Watkins of Rocky Mount: $10,000 ($5,000 a Week for Life!)
- Tanishee Peterson of Roseboro: $10,000 ($120 Million Cash)
- Scott Penny of Selma: $10,000 ($120 Million Cash)
- Bryan Burris of Wadesboro: $10,000 ($4,000,000 Multiplier Spectacular)
- Nicholas Norris of Wake Forest: $10,000 ($5,000 a Week for Life!)
- Lucinda Williams of Zebulon: $30,000 (Red Hot 5’s)
Thanks for another fun week here in the Lucke-Zone, we'll see you again soon!
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I'M JUST WAITTING FOR MY SHIP TO COME IN SO I CAN TAKE CARE OF MY MOTHER & PUT MONEY A SIDE FOR MY TWO GRANDCHILDREN I SO LOVE THEM & BLESS MY CHILDREN WITH A LITTLE SOMETHING!!!
Congrats to allof the winners!! I too keep playing an also checking my e-mail for a big win. Of course we could use the money, but I would also like to help those with less. Isn't that what the sason coming up is about?
Congrats to you all enjoy!!!!!!#