Lottery player wins $25,000 a year prize in North Carolina. Where was the ticket sold?
A lottery player is set to get richer after scoring a massive prize in North Carolina.
The player bought a Lucky for Life game ticket that matched all but one number picked in the Jan. 9 drawing, making it worth $25,000 a year for life, results show.
The winning numbers: white balls 2-4-14-17-28, with gold Lucky Ball 11.
So, where was the ticket sold? The winner bought it online while in Pittsboro, a roughly 35-mile drive west from Raleigh, lottery officials told McClatchy News in an email and wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Lucky for Life is a drawing game that offers a top prize of $1,000 a day for life. The Pittsboro player won the second-tier prize of $25,000 a year for life after their ticket matched all the white balls but not the gold ball, rules show.
The winner’s prize wasn’t the only one worth celebrating. Also in the Jan. 9 drawing, three North Carolina tickets matched enough numbers to be worth $5,000. Here’s where they were sold:
- Online to a player in Wilson
- Online to a player in Wilmington
- At a 7-Eleven convenience store in Kill Devil Hills
As of about 12:30 p.m. Jan. 10, none of the four prizes had been claimed. North Carolina drawing game winners have about six months to cash in, lottery officials wrote on their website.
This story was originally published January 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM with the headline "Lottery player wins $25,000 a year prize in North Carolina. Where was the ticket sold?."
