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RALEIGH – A lucky player in Stanly County kicked off the New Year with a $1 million Powerball win.
The winner bought the $2 ticket at the Friendly Mart on N.C. 24-27 West Bypass in Albemarle. The ticket matched the numbers on all five white balls in the New Year’s Day drawing to win $1 million. The odds of matching numbers on all five white balls are 1 in 11.6 million.
Two Powerball tickets won a $1 million prize, the largest prize in the Jan. 1 drawing. A player purchased the other $1 million winning ticket in Arizona.
The winner has 180 days to claim the prize.
Saturday’s Powerball drawing offers a $200 million jackpot, or $90.7 million in cash. The odds of winning a Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292 million.
Powerball is one of six lottery games in North Carolina where players have the option of buying their tickets at a retail location or with Online Play through the lottery’s website or with the NC Lottery Official Mobile App.
For details on how money raised by the lottery makes a difference for education programs in all 100 North Carolina counties, visit www.nclottery.com and click on the “Impact” section.