Lottery player’s $2 ticket leads to record-breaking $6.7 million prize in NC
A lottery player tried their luck — and won a record-breaking prize in North Carolina.
The player spent $2 on a Monopoly ticket that hit the jackpot. The ticket was worth $6,745,117 — the largest prize ever won in a North Carolina digital instant game, the N.C. Education Lottery wrote in a news release and on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Monopoly is a progressive jackpot game that offers online tickets starting at 50 cents. To score a jackpot prize, a player’s ticket must match several digital symbols, according to game rules.
In the past, a spokesperson told McClatchy News lottery officials can’t pinpoint where the players are when they buy digital instant tickets. But it knows the $6.7 million winner is from New Bern, a roughly 115-mile drive southeast from Raleigh.
The player beat 1-in-25 million odds to win the game’s top-tier “Grand Fortune” jackpot. The person made history after beating the previous record for a digital instant win. That ticket, sold to a Mooresville player, won $1.3 million in October, lottery officials wrote in a past news release and email to McClatchy News.
As of about 3:15 p.m. April 8, the lucky ticket holder hadn’t claimed their prize. The winner has about six months to cash in, rules show.
This story was originally published April 9, 2025 at 6:06 AM with the headline "Lottery player’s $2 ticket leads to record-breaking $6.7 million prize in NC."
