Donna Gray of Mount Pleasant played a Digital Instant game for the first time and won a $1,939,727 jackpot.
“I’ve bought scratch-offs over the years but this was the first time trying this,” she said.
Gray played for $1 on Aug. 1 and won the jackpot in the PowerMax Cash game. The odds of that win were 1 in 150 million.
“It started rolling and just kept rolling,” she recalled. “I thought it would be like $100 or something.”
Gray told her husband as soon as she could.
“I said, ‘I won big,’ but he didn’t believe me,” Gray laughed. “It took us both a couple days to believe it.”
She claimed her prize Tuesday at lottery headquarters and, after required federal and state tax withholdings, took home $1,396,798.
Gray plans to invest her winnings.
In the PowerMax Cash Digital Instant game, a player can play from 50 cents to $50. The current jackpot as of Thursday morning stands at over $337,000.
Digital instant games are played exclusively online on the lottery’s website or on the NC Lottery Official Mobile App. Eighty-nine different games are available to play online now.
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