Cash 5, Powerball and instant tickets lead to big wins

Once again it's time for the weekly winner wrap-up, so let's get right to it!

The biggest winner of the week was Bonnie Gardner, an art teacher at a Fayetteville elementary school. She plans to use the $1 million she won playing the $200 Million Blowout game to help her family.

Dorothy Johnson, a homemaker from Fayetteville, plans to use the $279,598 jackpot she won playing Carolina Cash 5 to pay bills, take a vacation and share with her children and grandchildren. She matched all five numbers, which she chose based on family birthdays, in the Oct. 21 drawing to win the jackpot.

Twenty prizes awarded were worth between $10,000 and $54,103. In alphabetical order by the winner’s hometown, they are:

• Charlotte - Lenet Adams won $30,000 playing Aces & 8’s
• Charlotte - Reginaldo Firmino won $10,000 playing White Hot 5’s
  
• Charlotte - Pamela Robinson won $10,000 playing $
  
• Claremont - Felipe Chavez won $20,000 playing $1,000,000 Jackpot
  
• Concord - Roger Phipps won $30,000 playing Triple 7’s
  
• Concord - Catherine Miller won $10,000 playing Powerball / 11-1-14
  
• Durham - David Hanson won $10,000 playing $120 Million Cash
  
• Fayetteville - Santa Clark won  $20,000 playing Powerball / 11-1-14
  
• Frisco - Beverly Erme-Cox won $50,000 playing Casino Crossword
  
• Havelock - Terry Blue won $50,000 playing $200 Million Blowout
  
• High Point - Saundra Watkins won $10,000 playing $120 Million Cash
  
• Jacksonville - Danny Parker won $54,103 playing Carolina Cash 5
  
• Middleburg - Sharon Perry won $30,000 playing Aces & 8’s
  
• Mooresville - Michael Daniels won $10,000 playing Powerball / 10-29-14
  
• Morganton - Janubhai Patel won $10,000 playing $200 Million Blowout
  
• Parkton - Wilton Locklear won $50,000 playing $200 Million Blowout
  
• Sneads Ferry - Nina Turci won $10,000 playing $250,000 Cash Money
  
• Vanceboro - Samantha Robbins won $10,000 playing $200 Million Blowout
  
• Wilson - Kesha Bullock won $50,000 playing $50,000 Lucky Numbers
  
• Winston-Salem - Marie French won $20,000 playing Papa John’s
  

This week brought more than $24 million in prizes to lottery players across the state. Overall, instant scratch-off players in North Carolina won more than $17.6 million in prizes since Thursday, Oct. 30. During that time, players of draw games won $6.6 million in total prizes.

That about wraps up this wrap-up. We'll see you next time, Lucke-Zone!