Jessica Murphy of New Bern tried her luck on a $1 Cash 5 ticket and won a $757,577 prize on Thursday.
She bought her lucky ticket from Piggly Wiggly on Tatum Drive in New Bern. It matched all five balls in the Cash 5 drawing for a $1.5 million jackpot. She split the prize with another jackpot-winning ticket from Apex.
The odds of matching numbers on all five balls playing Cash 5 are 1 in 962,598.
Murphy arrived at lottery headquarters Monday to collect her prize and, after required state and federal tax withholdings, took home $541,668.
Cash 5 is one of six lottery games in North Carolina where players have the option of buying their tickets at a retail location or with Online Play through the lottery’s website or the NC Lottery Official Mobile App.
Tonight’s Cash 5 jackpot stands at $185,000.
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