A woman in southeastern North Carolina beat odds of 1 in 1,354,380 to be the first jackpot winner in the aptly named $1,000,000 Money Rush game. Barbara Jenkins, of Richlands, paid $10 for the scratch-off ticket, which means she got a $100,000 return for every buck she spent.

Suthard beat odds of 1 in 1,461,660 to win a jackpot. The scratch-off game relies on matching symbols rather than numbers, like an old fashioned slot machine. Initially, Suthard wasn’t exactly sure how to read the ticket.

A North Carolina man scored a $120,000 jackpot from a Cash 5 lottery drawing less than four years after winning an even larger sum.

Manoj Chhetry, from Woodbridge, won a jackpot prize worth $4,303,499 in the Dec. 22 drawing for the Merry Money Mania game, the Virginia Lottery said in a Jan. 22 news release. Chhetry told lottery officials he thought it was a scam at first and had to call his wife to help him verify that he really had won. “I didn’t know what happened!” he said.

A ticket sold in Pensacola won a $111,892.95 prize in the Fantasy 5 evening drawing Jan. 22, and another player netted $107,178.78 in the game’s Jan. 21 drawing after purchasing

North Carolina lottery prize was identified as Michael Bach. The Cary man kept $78,925 after taxes, the N.C. Education Lottery wrote in a news release. The original story is below. A lottery player has a big reason to celebrate after scoring a life-changing win in North Carolina.

Two lottery players tried their luck at Fantasy 5 — and won the jackpot prize, according to the Georgia Lottery. The lucky players matched all five numbers drawn Monday, Jan. 20, to win $403,502 each, the lottery said.