Nerisa Dizdarevic of Winston-Salem took a chance on a $1 Cash 5 ticket and won the $443,848 jackpot in Tuesday’s drawing.
Dizdarevic bought her lucky Quick Pick ticket from the Speedway on South Stratford Road in Winston-Salem. She arrived at lottery headquarters Friday to collect her prize and, after required state and federal tax withholdings, took home $315,183.
Cash 5 is one of four lottery games in North Carolina where players have the option of buying their tickets through a retail location or Online Play, either through the lottery’s website or with the NC Lottery Official Mobile App. Cash 5 tickets are $1 and drawings are held every night. Monday’s jackpot is $165,000.
Ticket sales from draw games such as Cash 5 make it possible for the lottery to raise more than $2.5 million a day on average for education. For details on how $21.4 million raised by the lottery made a difference in Forsyth County in 2021, visit www.nclottery.com and click on the “Impact” section.