Joshua Faucette of High Point has been playing Cash 5 with the same set of numbers for a year, and on Monday night they paid off to the tune of a $110,000 jackpot.
On Tuesday morning, Faucette, who works as a forklift driver, decided to check his tickets.
“I always check my phone to see what Pick 4 and Cash 5 numbers came out,” he said. “When I went to Cash 5 and saw the numbers, I said, ‘Well, that looks like the numbers that I played!’”
Faucette quickly checked his own ticket and couldn’t believe his luck.
“I saw the numbers and I knew that I had won,” he recalled. “I was excited and it made me nervous all at the same time. I had to get myself together.”
Faucette purchased his winning ticket from the Quick Grocery Inc on Eastchester Drive in High Point. He claimed his prize Tuesday at lottery headquarters in Raleigh and took home $77,691 after required federal and state tax withholdings.
“Me and my fiancé made a down payment on a home that we live in,” said Faucette. “I’ll put a part of it towards what we owe on the house.” The rest, he said, will go towards paying other bills.
Carolina Cash 5 tickets are $1 and drawings are held every night. Wednesday’s jackpot is $110,000. The odds of winning a Cash 5 jackpot are 1 in 962,598.
Cash 5 is one of four lottery games in North Carolina where players have the option of buying their tickets through Online Play either through the lottery’s website or with the NC Lottery Official Mobile App.
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