In two days, LaKisa McKethan of Fayetteville will get a chance to spin a giant prize wheel and try to land a $2 million prize.
The chance comes as part of the lottery’s unique Bigger $pin game that begins with a scratch-off ticket and ends with a winner attending a Bigger $pin Live Event.
At Wednesday’s event, McKethan will walk up to a giant prize wheel and give it a spin with the chance of landing on a prize ranging from $400,000 to $2 million.
“I’ll be excited, nervous, everything, probably have butterflies,” McKethan said.
The once-in-a-lifetime opportunity began when McKethan, after working her third shift job, stopped at the VA VA Food Mart on Cumberland Road in Fayetteville and purchased a $10 Bigger $pin scratch-off.
“I was gonna wait,” she recalled, “but I always knew the early bird gets the worm. I was like ‘whoa’ and I was in shock.”
McKethan credits her young son for her good fortune. She said he told her he prayed for her to win a million dollars so she wouldn’t have to worry about money.
To cheer on McKethan, watch the lottery’s live video feed on its Facebook page at 1 p.m. on Wednesday.
The lottery will also show McKethan’s winning moment Wednesday night after the evening lottery drawings on draw stations WITN in Eastern North Carolina, WGHP in the Triad, WLOS in Western North Carolina, WRAL in the Triangle, and WSOC/WAXN TV 64 in Charlotte.
McKethan is the third person to get a chance to win one of the $2 million prizes. At the first event in November, a retired Greensboro postal worker won $900,000 and a Durham cook won $400,000.
Three more chances to win $2 million are up for grabs. Two more people can win a turn at the prize wheel on the scratch-off and a third person can win a turn in a second-chance drawing. All Bigger $pin tickets can be entered into the drawing.
The $2 million prize in the Bigger $pin game is four times bigger than the prize offered in the Big $pin game two years ago.
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