Lottery ticket worth over $321,000 sold in NC. But the winner might not know it yet
For the second time in as many weeks, the North Carolina Education Lottery is telling players “check your tickets.”
That’s because a jackpot is waiting to be claimed.
A Carolina Cash 5 ticket sold in Shelby matched all five numbers in a drawing on Thursday, Jan. 30, to win the jackpot. Shelby is about a 45-mile drive west from Charlotte.
Cash 5 players select five numbers from 1 to 43. In this case, the winning numbers were: 7, 14, 19, 20, 23.
If you’re holding that ticket, it’s worth $321,794, the lottery said in a social media post.
Odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 962,598, the game says.
The ticket was purchased at Curve View Express Food Mart on West Warren Street.
Cash 5 has a rolling jackpot that starts at $100,000 and keeps growing until someone picks the right numbers.
It’s the second time in two weeks a player in the Charlotte area got the game’s top prize.
On Jan. 19, Patsy Avery of Midland won $332,952 with a ticket purchased at a store in Iron Station, about a 25-mile drive northwest from Charlotte. She claimed the money Jan. 21 and it came to $238,893 after state and federal withholdings.
This story was originally published January 31, 2025 at 9:22 AM with the headline "Lottery ticket worth over $321,000 sold in NC. But the winner might not know it yet."