David Harvey of Youngsville used Online Play to buy a Cash 5 ticket and won Wednesday’s $100,000 jackpot.
Harvey claimed his prize Thursday at lottery headquarters in Raleigh. After required federal and state tax withholdings, he took home $70,754.
Friday’s Cash 5 jackpot is $110,000. The odds of winning a Cash 5 jackpot are 1 in 962,598.
Cash 5 is one of four lottery games in North Carolina where players have the option of buying their tickets either through the lottery’s website or with the NC Lottery Official Mobile App. The other games are Powerball, Mega Millions, and Lucky For Life.
Ticket sales from Carolina Cash 5 make it possible for the lottery to raise more than $725 million per year for education. For details on how lottery funds have helped all of North Carolina’s 100 counties, click on the “Impact” section of the lottery’s website.