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.

Nearly 550,000 Powerball tickets sold in the United States also won prizes ranging from $4 to $100,000, the lottery said.

On Sunday, the North Carolina Education Lottery rolled out Powerball Double Play, which gives players a second chance to win cash prizes of up to $10 million.

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.

To score the jackpot in the Powerball, a player must match all five white balls and the red Powerball. The odds of scoring the jackpot prize are 1 in 292,201,338. Tickets can be bought on the day of the drawing, but sales times and price vary by state.

A Raleigh woman is one of the finalists in the NASCAR Powerball Playoff, competing for a $1 million prize in the national lottery event.

Penny Adams of Eden sat on her couch Thursday playing Digital Instants when she hit a $1.69 million jackpot on The Lamp: Dark Arts! “I lost my voice from screaming so loud,” she laughed. She plans to use her winnings to buy a new home. https://t.co/DFtkpDdtwY pic.twitter.com/22efmJV995

Playing 'The Lamp Dark Arts,' for just 50 cents, the person from Eden won a $1.69 million digital instant jackpot. According to the North Carolina Education Lottery, 'The Lamp Dark Arts' has a progressive jackpot that continues to grow until it is won. Because of Thursday's win, the jackpot has been reset to $100,000.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Winning the Powerball lottery in North Carolina means losing privacy. Seriously, be prepared for a 10th cousin twice-removed, whom you never have met, to come knocking at your door if you hit the jackpot. In North Carolina, the current ...

A North Carolina lottery player’s $1 ticket scored a jackpot S aturday, but no one immediately claimed the prize, officials said. The winner hit the top jackpot in the online Monopoly game — $1.86 million, according to a lottery news release. They beat odds of 1 in 50 million, according to the Monopoly game page.