A positive case of COVD-19 forced the New Jersey lottery to change the location for its drawings.
This comes as sales of the Fast Play game are scheduled to resume at 5 p.m. on Thursday.
Operations were temporarily moved from the lottery s headquarters in Lawrence to a business continuity site where the drawings will be conducted with mechanical ball machines but not televised or live streamed.
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An independent auditor will observe all drawings. Key staff from all lottery departments will also temporarily be housed at the site.
The lottery said that the Fast Play game resumed play late Thursday afternoon after a problem stemming from an system upgrade on Feb. 26 which prevented the gaming system from selecting a top tier jackpot winner in the progressive lottery was fixed. All prize tiers below the top prize tier “jackpot” were unaffected.
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Kirk claimed his prize Wednesday at lottery headquarters in Raleigh and took home $91,174 after required federal and state tax withholdings.
“I’ve been married for almost 50 years, so whatever my wife tells me she would like to do with the money, we will do,” Kirk said. “I have two children and a bunch of grandchildren and I’ll probably share some of the money with them, too.”
Fast Play’s rolling, progressive jackpot increases with every ticket sold until it is won.
Printed on each Fast Play ticket is the amount of the jackpot when the ticket is sold and how much of that jackpot the ticket could win. Players can also win instant cash prizes on their Fast Play tickets.
Carolina Beach man wins big in lottery Bruce Kirk purchased the $5 Jackpot 7s ticket from the Scotchman on South Lake Park Blvd. in Carolina Beach. (Source: NC Education Lottery) By WECT Staff | April 8, 2021 at 8:59 AM EDT - Updated April 8 at 8:59 AM
CAROLINA BEACH, N.C. (WECT) - A Carolina Beach man has won a $126,866 Fast Play jackpot, according to lottery officials.
Bruce Kirk purchased the $5 Jackpot 7s ticket from the Scotchman on South Lake Park Blvd. in Carolina Beach.
The odds of winning a Fast Play jackpot are 1 in 240,000.
“I felt very fortunate and lucky,” he said. “I’ve been married for almost 50 years, so whatever my wife tells me she would like to do with the money, we will do.