He won $500 his first time playing NC lottery game — then scored an even bigger win
A North Carolina truck driver won $500 the first time he played a lottery game — but his luck didn’t stop there.
The Raleigh-area man bought another ticket for the same game and discovered it was worth $1 million, according to the N.C. Education Lottery.
“I’ve been doing pretty well on that $50 ticket,” William Roberts said in a Jan. 10 news release. “This win was unbelievable though.”
Roberts said he had his second stroke of luck during a morning coffee run in Morrisville, a Raleigh suburb. While at a Circle K convenience store on Davis Drive, he spent $50 on a ticket for the $10 Million Spectacular scratch-off game.
Roberts was drinking his coffee in his car when he checked the ticket — and he couldn’t believe his luck. It turns out, his ticket beat 1-in-813,000 odds to win big.
Roberts decided to take his $1 million prize in a lump sum and kept $429,014 after taxes, officials said.
“I’m a truck driver, so I’ll probably invest the money into buying more trucks for my business,” Roberts told the N.C. Education Lottery.
It’s not the first time a North Carolina lottery player has scored a second win. One man split a $4 million prize before he hit the jackpot again, McClatchy News reported in 2021.
This story was originally published January 10, 2024 at 2:33 PM with the headline "He won $500 his first time playing NC lottery game — then scored an even bigger win."
