Leroy Blango of Greenville said he’s planning for fun on a family vacation after winning on Saturday a $109,383 Fast Play jackpot.
“I’m a low maintenance guy,” said Blango, “It doesn’t take a lot to make me happy. Now I can enjoy life a bit more.”
Blango, a truck driver, stopped at the Handy Mart on Charles Boulevard in Greenville on Saturday and tried his luck with a $2 Bingo Bucks ticket. He said he knew he had “won pretty good’ when he saw the message telling him to go to lottery headquarters.
He claimed his prize on Monday and took home $77,673 after required federal and state tax withholdings.
Fast Play’s rolling, progressive jackpot increases with every ticket sold until it is won. On Tuesday morning, the jackpot was over a quarter million dollars and still growing. A $2 ticket, like Bingo Bucks, receives 20 percent of the jackpot amount. The odds of winning a Fast Play jackpot are 1 in 240,000.
Players can see if they have won and how much instantly with Fast Play. Printed on each ticket is the amount of the jackpot when the ticket is sold and how much of that jackpot the ticket could win. Players can also win instant cash prizes on their Fast Play tickets.
Ticket sales from games like Fast Play make it possible for the lottery to raise more than $900 million per year for education. For details on how $10 million raised by the lottery made a difference in Pitt County in 2021, visit www.nclottery.com and click on the “Impact” section.