Cedric Mclain of Fayetteville took a chance on a $1 Cash 5 ticket and won a $191,400 jackpot in Saturday’s drawing.
Mclain purchased his lucky ticket from the Circle K on Fayetteville Road in Raeford. He matched all five white balls in the drawing to win the jackpot.
Mclain arrived at lottery headquarters Monday to collect his prize and, after required state and federal tax withholdings, took home $136,373.
Cash 5 is one of six 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.
The odds of winning a Cash 5 jackpot are 1 in 962,598. Tuesday’s jackpot is $120,000.
Ticket sales from draw games make it possible for the lottery to raise an average of $2.5 million a day for education. For details on how $23 million raised by the lottery made a difference in Cumberland County last year, visit www.nclottery.com and click on the “Impact” section.