Lottery ticket sold in NC is worth $25,000 a year for life. Where did winner buy it?
A North Carolina lottery player is set to get much richer after scoring a life-changing prize.
The player bought a Lucky for Life game ticket that matched all but one number in the Nov. 13 drawing, making it worth $25,000 a year for life, results show.
The winning numbers: white balls 18-24-27-43-45, with gold Lucky Ball 8.
The player’s ticket matched all of the white balls to win big. The player bought it at a Quality Mart convenience store in Winston-Salem, the N.C. Education Lottery wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Lucky for Life is a drawing game that costs $2 to play. The winner was one number away from scoring the game’s top prize of $1,000 a day, according to game rules.
The Lucky for Life winning streak continued Nov. 14, when a ticket sold at a Harris Teeter grocery store in Charlotte matched enough numbers to be worth $5,000, a lottery spokesperson told McClatchy News in an email.
As of Nov. 15, no one had claimed the $25,000 a year prize. Lucky for Life winners have about six months to cash in, the lottery wrote on its website.
This story was originally published November 15, 2024 at 6:14 AM with the headline "Lottery ticket sold in NC is worth $25,000 a year for life. Where did winner buy it?."
