Eleanor Whitehead of Apex tried her luck on a $1 Cash 5 ticket and won $887,156.
Whitehead purchased her lucky ticket at the Fusion Seven on North Main Street in Fuquay Varina and won the Sept. 8 drawing. She arrived at lottery headquarters Friday to collect her prize and, after required state and federal tax withholdings, took home $629,971.
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 $150,000.
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 million raised by the lottery made a difference in Wake County in 2021, visit www.nclottery.com and click on the “Impact” section.