RALEIGH – Hickory’s Timothy Vanstry stopped to try his luck with a new Fast Play ticket and instantly won a $ 120,695 jackpot.
Vanstry bought his winning ticket at the Mountain View Market on NC 127 South in Hickory.
Your $ 10 ticket outnumbered the odds of 1 in 240,000 to win the full jackpot amount.
Vanstry’s win on Thursday was the 6th overall jackpot win for a $ 10 Jackpot 7s ticket out of the 31 times the jackpot was hit. The Fast Play jackpot wins occurred twice on Tuesday, twice on Wednesday, once on Thursday and twice on Friday.
He claimed his prize on Friday at the lottery headquarters in Raleigh. After required federal and state tax withholdings, Vanstry took home $ 85,395.
The Fast Play progressive jackpot increases with each ticket sold until it is won.
Printed on each ticket is the jackpot amount when the ticket is sold and how much of that jackpot the ticket can win. Players can also win instant cash prizes on their Fast Play tickets.
Ticket sales for Fast Play games allow the lottery to raise more than $ 725 million a year for education. For details on how the lottery funds have helped all 100 North Carolina counties, click on the “Impact” section of the lottery website.