The numbers 5-5-5 in Saturday afternoon’s Carolina Pick 3 drawing added up to a $3.5 million win for lottery players.
The drawing produced 8,941 winning tickets that matched all three numbers. A player with a fifty-cent ticket won $250 and a player with a $1 ticket won $500.
The winning numbers are known as “trips” among players of the Pick 3 game. Trips are some of the most popular combination of numbers played. The odds of matching all three numbers in a Pick 3 drawing are 1 in 1,000.
Winners have 180 days to claim their prizes.
Drawings in the Carolina Pick 3 game are held twice a day, at 3 p.m. and at 11:22 p.m. Players can either pick their own numbers or select a Quick Pick by allowing the lottery terminal to generate a set of three numbers for them.
Ticket sales from draw games like Pick 3 help to raise more than $725 million a year for education programs in North Carolina. For details on how lottery funds have made a difference in North Carolina, click on the “Impact” section of the lottery’s website.
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