Raleigh resident Carrie White sat on her couch playing her favorite digital instant game when a lucky ticket turned into a $717,538 jackpot.
“I cried,” White recalled. “I just couldn’t believe it.”
White played a $2 ticket on Feb. 3 and won the top level ‘Epic jackpot’ in the Bison Bonanza game. The digital instant game features a progressive jackpot that can be won at any time. The odds of that win are 1 in 15.5 million.
“I just kept logging back in over and over again to see if it was still there,” White laughed. “That’s a once-in-a-lifetime thing.”
She claimed her prize Monday at lottery headquarters and, after required federal and state tax withholdings, took home $514,835.
She plans to put her winnings toward a down payment on a home.
In the Bison Bonanza digital instant game, a player can play from 50 cents to $30. After White won the jackpot, it restarted at $50,000 and has grown to over $200,000 as of Tuesday morning.
Digital instant games are played exclusively online on the lottery’s website or on the NC Lottery Official Mobile App. Thirty-nine different games are available to play online now.
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