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Your North Carolina Education Lottery questions answered
Van Denton, Communications Director, joined 2 Wants to Know to discuss how the money is beneficial and what some of the biggest prizes are players can win. Author: WFMY News 2 Staff Published: 8:58 PM EDT July 2, 2021 Updated: 9:05 PM EDT July 2, 2021
GREENSBORO, N.C. For the last 15 years, the North Carolina Education Lottery has raised $8 billion for education programs. The NC Education Lottery started on March 30, 2006.
The lottery raises $2 million each day on average for education.
Since the lottery began:
About 95 cents of every dollar spent on a lottery ticket cycles back into the state’s economy as either a prize, earnings for education, or a sales commission to a retailer.
Lottery Players Win Millions Using Biblical Numbers
A number typically associated with the coming antichrist as spoken of in the Bible has been used to pay out over $3 million in lottery cash.
The winning numbers in the May 12 drawing of the North Carolina Education Lottery game Carolina Pick 3 were the infamous 6-6-6. 7,998 tickets sold matched that number for a total payout of $3.2 million.
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The Pick 3 game has two top prizes depending on the type of ticket bought. The 50-cent ticket pays $250 and the $1 ticket pays $500.
According to a lottery press release, the triple-digit combinations are known as trips among players of the Pick 3 game. These trips are some of the most popular combinations of numbers played. The odds of a trip matching the winning drawing are 1 in 1,000.
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Flotsam & Jetsam: Cookie-selling record and still dreaming big
By Jim Carter
Lilly Bumpus, age 8, sold a record 32,484 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies this season from a booth she set up in front of her San Bernardino, California, home. Most of her sales were to people buying one to four boxes, according to her mother, Trish Bauer. A cancer survivor herself, Lilly also collected donation orders online for patients at various area children’s hospitals. “She sold her … heart out,” Bauer said. “It’s Lilly being Lilly. She doesn’t like being told that something is not possible.” (Not for you, Lilly.)