Lottery player spends $5 — and scores a $912,000 jackpot prize in North Carolina
A lottery player spent $5 on a ticket — and hit the jackpot in North Carolina.
On June 4, the player bought a ticket that scored the top prize in The Lamp: Dark Arts, the N.C. Education Lottery wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The Lamp: Dark Arts is a progressive jackpot game that offers lottery tickets starting at 50 cents. The online game features a prize wheel and digital icons that players can match to win big, rules show.
It turns out, the lucky player won the top-tier “Alakazam” jackpot, making their ticket worth $912,326, lottery officials told McClatchy News via email.
A spokesperson previously told McClatchy News the lottery can’t pinpoint where players are when they buy their tickets for digital instant games. But lottery officials know the jackpot winner is from the Duplin County town of Warsaw, a roughly 70-mile drive southeast from Raleigh.
As of about 10:45 a.m. June 5, no one had claimed the Warsaw prize. In North Carolina, the winners of digital instant games have about six months to cash in, officials said.
This story was originally published June 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM with the headline "Lottery player spends $5 — and scores a $912,000 jackpot prize in North Carolina."
