The player hit the jackpot after stopping at a convenience store in the mountain town of Asheville. The lucky ticket was sold at Fastrac Markets Inc, the N.C. Education Lottery wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

The unidentified woman recently stopped at a Redi Mart gas station in Lyman, South Carolina, and bought herself three Money Madness Extra Play scratch-off game lottery tickets. She told the South Carolina Education Lottery that the “bright, shiny, and glittery tickets caught my eye.”

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (WAVY) — An Elizabeth City man turned a $1 ticket into a $273,520 jackpot, according to the NC Education Lottery. The lucky ticket was for Multiplier Mania, one of the NC Education Lottery’s digital instant games. William Evans hit the game’s Gold Jackpot, beating the odds of 1 in 14 million.

A lottery jackpot seldom comes when a play needs it the most, but it just happened for a high school teacher in North Carolina. Tonya Carter of Warrenton “rarely plays the lottery,” which only adds to the sheer coincidence that she needed money and won $1 million.

Local player finally cashes in after 20 years, landing the South Carolina Education Lottery jackpot with numbers bought at Publix on Two Notch Road.

A woman in Arkansas was out running errands when she bought a lottery ticket and won a prize. The woman was running errands when she stopped to buy a drink, according to a July 24 news release from the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery. Once she was inside the North Little Rock store, she decided to buy a new lottery ticket, the release said.

A lottery player tried their luck on a ticket — and hit the jackpot in North Carolina. The player bought a Carolina Cash 5 ticket that matched all the numbers picked in the July 23 drawing, making it worth $321,419, results show. The winning numbers were: 6-9-24-39-40.

Are you tonight’s lucky winner? Grab your tickets and check your numbers. The Mega Millions lottery jackpot continues to rise after someone won the $344 million prize on March 25. Here are the winning numbers in Friday’s drawing: