On Tuesday, she became the 26th jackpot winner in the Fast Play game.
Her ticket beat odds of 1 in 240,000 to win 50 percent of the jackpot. At the time of the win, the Fast Play jackpot stood at $273,708, producing a prize for Moser of $136,854.
She claimed her prize Thursday at lottery headquarters in Raleigh. After required federal and state tax withholdings, Moser took home $96,826.
The area has seen a number of winning tickets in January, including two Powerball prizes purchased in Wilmington and two more in Brunswick County. One was a $2 million payout for a Leland man.
Fast Play’s rolling, progressive jackpot increases with every ticket sold until it is won.
I would only do it if it looked and sounded good, Haller said. I loved the way it was all organized by UNCW staff and Cucalorus Festival Director Dan Brawley, who helped Haller get DocuTime to the drive-in screen.
Being at a drive-in for the first time in decades, Haller said, took me back 100 years to when I was a little girl and Daddy and Mother would take us to the drive-in. Daddy had a station wagon with wooden sides. He d load it up with (her twin sister) and two or three of my friends. You could get out and get food and all and run around. We had so much fun. I never forgot it.
To win, his Megaplier ticket matched the numbers on all five white balls, which beat 1 in 12.6 million odds. It won him a $1 million prize, which was doubled to $2 million when the 2X Megaplier was drawn.
Dowe, who works in shipping and receiving, bought his winning $3 Quick Pick ticket at the Minuteman Food Mart on Mercantile Drive in Leland.
He claimed his prize Monday at lottery headquarters in Raleigh, taking home $1,415,001 after required federal and state tax withholdings.
He said he immediately told his parents, who were very happy and is now figuring out what he s going to do with his life-changing winnings, apart from putting it in savings.
With the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday, Jan. 20, there has been lots of talk, in the media and elsewhere, of what healing should look like for our country once President Donald Trump is out of office.
It s been a tumultuous four years politically, with emotions running super-high on both sides of the aisle, the partisan divide as wide as ever. What would it take for the country to come together again? Not another 9/11-type event, we can only pray.
Predictably, a Facebook thread on this topic I started on my page largely devolved into the same heated arguments, attacks and counter-attacks that have soured so many of us on social media.