Chad Welch of Mooresville took a chance on a $1 Cash 5 ticket and won a $324,564 jackpot.
Welch bought his lucky Quick Pick ticket using Online Play. His ticket matched all five numbers in the Oct. 6 drawing to win the jackpot. Welch won half of the $649,128 total jackpot after another ticket also matched all five numbers. The odds of matching all five balls are 1 in 962,598.
He claimed his prize at lottery headquarters Thursday and, after required federal and state tax withholdings, took home $232,878.
Cash 5 is one of six lottery games in North Carolina where players have the option of buying their tickets at a retail location or with Online Play through the lottery’s website or the NC Lottery Official Mobile App. Thursday’s jackpot is $100,000.
For details on how $10.7 million raised by the lottery made a difference for Iredell County education programs last year, visit www.nclottery.com and click on the “Impact” section.