George Dove of Cary decided to try his luck on $1 Cash 5 ticket and won the $331,579 jackpot the day of his 38th wedding anniversary.

Dove bought his lucky Quick Pick ticket using Online Play on the lottery’s website for last Thursday’s drawing. He arrived at lottery headquarters Tuesday to collect his prize and, after required state and federal tax withholdings, took home $235,455.

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. Wednesday’s jackpot is $146,000.

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 $65.1 million raised by the lottery made a difference in Wake County in 2021, visit www.nclottery.com and click on the “Impact” section.