Welcome to Lottery Week.
Today through Friday, we’re joining other lotteries in the U.S. and Canada in the first observance of Lottery Week. We created the week to celebrate the role lotteries play in raising money for good causes and share information about lotteries with our players.
Your lottery, the Education Lottery, is thirteen years old now. But if you look back at history, lotteries have been around both in the U.S. and North Carolina since Colonial Times. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and others used lotteries to raise money for good causes. In North Carolina, they helped raise money to build bridges, roads, schools, and churches.
It’s fun for a good cause.
In fiscal year 2018 alone, U.S. lotteries generated $23.4 billion for good causes. That same year, in North Carolina, your lottery raised $670 million for education. That’s more than $1.8 million every single day on average.
North Carolinians enjoy playing lottery games and winning prizes. In FY18, lottery prizes totaled $1.6 billion, or about $4.5 million a day. Some prizes make your day. Some make your year. And others can change your life.
So far, seven North Carolinians have won life-changing Powerball or Mega Million jackpots. The latest happened in June when a Cumberland County man won the state’s biggest jackpot so far, $344 million.
We’ll be sharing information about your lottery all week in this blog and on our Facebook page.
On Friday, you can test what you learned during a LIVE trivia event on the lottery Facebook page. Join us at 1 p.m. for a fun show and a chance to win a prize. We’ll be giving away five $50 gift cards.
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