Area woman won more than half a million lottery prize

Rosa Pittman of Rocky Mount took a chance on a $10 Fast Play ticket on Thanksgiving Day and won a $591,449 jackpot.

Pittman bought her lucky Big Bucks Bingo ticket at the 301 Convenient Mart on North Wesleyan Boulevard in Rocky Mount.

She arrived at lottery headquarters Monday to collect her prize, and after required state and federal tax withholdings, took home $419,991.

The Fast Play rolling jackpot grows with every ticket purchased. Because Pittman bought a $10 ticket, she won the whole jackpot.

On Monday afternoon, the Fast Play jackpot had grown past $83,508.

The odds of winning a Fast Play jackpot are 1 in 320,000.

Ticket sales from lottery games make it possible for the lottery to raise more than $2.5 million a day on average for education.