Fayetteville man wins $106,310 in the N.C. Lottery

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Fayetteville man wins $106,310 in the N.C. Lottery
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Luther Covington said he's been playing the N.C. Education Lottery since it started.

All that playing paid off for the Fayetteville man when he won $106,310 in the Fast Play jackpot game.

Covington said he received a free $2 Jackpot 7 ticket after he bought a $10 Carolina Pick 3 ticket from a Circle B convenience store on North Reilly Road on Friday.

The free ticket turned out to be the lucky one.

“I took it to the scanner and it said I had to go to the North Carolina Lottery. And I said, ‘What?’” Covington said in a news release.

Covington said he didn’t look at the ticket again until Sunday when he was thinking about how much he might have won.

“I went back and took a picture of the ticket to the lady at the store,” he said. “And she said, ‘I think you won the jackpot, the $2 jackpot!’ It was very exciting.”

Covington claimed his prize Monday at lottery headquarters in Raleigh. After taxes, he took home $75,214.

“I’ll pay my car off and pay a few bills and put the rest in savings,” said Covington of his plans for his prize money.

Since Fast Play started in September, North Carolinians have won 11 jackpots, a lottery spokesman said. The rolling, progressive jackpot increases with every ticket sold until it is won. The odds of winning a Fast Play jackpot are 1 in 240,000.

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