RALEIGH -- Rich Wright of Chapel Hill started his day Thursday like he does many days, checking his lottery numbers as he sat with his family around the breakfast table. He always plays his set of lucky numbers – special birthdays – and had purchased 10 chances at the $200 million jackpot the night before.
As he matched his tickets to the winning numbers on the N.C. Education Lottery’s website, he saw that one of his tickets had matched all the white balls, getting five of the six numbers.
“I knew I had power played so I knew it was a million dollars,” Wright said a few hours later at NCEL headquarters. “I couldn’t believe it. I said, ‘Oh, my God.’ And my family said, ‘What?’ And I said, ‘We just hit the lottery.’”
Wright, a sales manager for a company that sells and installs central vacuum systems, said he always buys the $2 Power Play tickets because he knows if he wins the prize will be bigger. Under the Power Play option, matching the numbers of five white balls results in an automatic $1 million win, while wins from other lower tier prizes are multiplied by the Power Play number.
Wright said he planned to use his prize money, $680,000 after taxes were withheld, to pay off bills, buy a new home, and take his family, including his two daughters, to Disney World. He bought the winning ticket at the Buy & Go on Northwest Ephesus Church Road in Chapel Hill.
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