The player has a lot to celebrate after buying a Carolina Cash 5 ticket online. It matched all the numbers picked in the Oct. 4 drawing, making it worth $539,813, the North Carolina Education Lottery wrote on its website and the social media platform X.

Santana McCoy, of Engelhard, played $5 on the digital instant game Bison Bonanza, North Carolina Education Lottery officials said in an Oct. 15 news release. “That’s my favorite game,” McCoy said in the release. “It’s always the first game I play.”

A North Carolina woman bought a scratch-off lottery ticket while on a break from work at a grocery store and ended up clocking back in with a $200,000 prize.

A lottery player waited for a jackpot to grow — and it paid off big time in North Carolina. Shawn Gallagher learned he won a $539,813 prize, and he shared the good news with his wife. “She wanted to kiss me,” the lucky winner told the N.C. Education Lottery in an Oct. 7 news release.

A grandmother bought a lottery ticket on her break from work — and hit the jackpot. “This is really going to come in handy,” prize winner Nora Huntley told the North Carolina Education Lottery. “It’s a blessing.

A North Carolina woman said she and her husband will finally be able to take a honeymoon after 31 years of marriage thanks to a $1 million lottery prize.

According to the North Carolina Education Lottery, Santana McCoy won a $219,685 jackpot from the Bison Bonanza digital lottery game. McCoy said the digital game is her favorite and the only one she usually plays. After seeing that her $5 ticket returned the massive jackpot, she said she couldn’t believe it.

The 60-year-old father said he was “tickled to death” when he discovered his lottery ticket was worth $25,000 a year for life. Now, he hopes to buy UTVs so his relatives can ride them together. “Family is the number one thing to me,” the winner told lottery officials in an Oct. 14 news release. “All for one and one for all.”