Stephanie Coulter of Clemmons waited for her husband and son to get home to surprise them with the news of her $100,000 Powerball win.

“I was waiting for them when they walked in the door,” Coulter laughed. “I didn’t want to tell them over the phone.”

Coulter bought her lucky $3 Power Play ticket from the Lowe’s Foods on Peters Creek Parkway in Winston-Salem.

“That’s the grocery store we go to every week,” she said. “You always hear about people winning in random places but I didn’t expect it to be there.”

She matched the numbers on four white balls and the red Powerball to win $50,000 in Saturday’s drawing. Her prize doubled to $100,000 when the 2X multiplier hit.

“I was in disbelief,” she recalled.

Coulter’s ticket became one of four that won big prizes Saturday. A second $3 Power Play ticket purchased in Fayetteville won $100,000 and $2 tickets from Concord and Winston-Salem won $50,000.

Coulter arrived in Raleigh on Wednesday to claim her winnings and, after required federal and state tax withholdings, took home $71,501. She plans to use her winnings to take a trip to New York, pay for her children’s college, and invest.

Wednesday’s Powerball jackpot stands at an $865 million annuity or $416.1 million in cash. The odds of winning a Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292 million. Powerball is one of six draw games in North Carolina where players have the option of buying their tickets at a retail location or with Online Play.
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For details on how $9.7 million raised by the lottery made a difference for education programs in Davidson County last year, visit www.nclottery.com and click on the “Impact” section.