Vertella Gadberry of Winston-Salem knows exactly what she wants to do after she won a $768,201 digital instant jackpot on Saturday.
“I’m going to buy a house,” she said.
Gadberry said she enjoys the convenience of digital instants.
“I like that I can just sit at home and play the games,” she said.
Gadberry played for $3 and won the top jackpot in the new Wheel of Fortune game. The digital instant game features a progressive jackpot that can be won any time. The odds of that win are 1 in 16.6 million.
“I didn’t know if it was real,” Gadberry said. “I was in shock.”
She claimed her prize Wednesday at lottery headquarters and, after required federal and state tax withholdings, took home $553,183.
In the Wheel of Fortune digital instant game, a player can play from 50 cents to $30. After Gadberry won the jackpot, it restarted at $150,000 and has grown to over $395,000 as of Thursday morning.
Digital instant games are played exclusively online on the lottery’s website or on the NC Lottery Official Mobile App. Sixty-five different games are available to play online now.
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