Lottery player won millions on $2 ticket. Now record-breaking NC prize is claimed
A lottery player spent $2 on a ticket — and scored a record-breaking prize in North Carolina.
Now, the winner of the multi-million-dollar windfall has come forward, the N.C. Education Lottery said April 23 in a news release.
Man Yo, who lives in New Bern, made history when she bought an online ticket for the Monopoly game. She won the “Grand Fortune” jackpot, making her ticket worth $6.7 million, McClatchy News reported April 9.
It turns out, Yo scored “the biggest digital instant prize in North Carolina lottery history.” Her lucky ticket shattered the previous record, which stood at $1.3 million, according to lottery officials.
Monopoly is a progressive jackpot game that offers tickets starting at 50 cents. To hit the jackpot, a player must match several digital symbols, rules show.
Yo, who beat 1-in-25 million odds to score the game’s top prize, won a total of $6,745,117. She kept more than $4.8 million after taxes.
New Bern is a roughly 115-mile drive southeast from Raleigh.
This story was originally published April 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM with the headline "Lottery player won millions on $2 ticket. Now record-breaking NC prize is claimed."
