$10 lottery ticket leads to nearly $500,000 prize for NC man

What started off as a $10 lottery ticket ended up being a nearly $500,000 prize for a man from Asheville.

A press release from the North Carolina Education Lottery says Stephen Hinson stopped by Sav-Mor on Patton Avenue on Jan. 2 and picked up a Big Bucks Bingo ticket.

That ticket turned into a $496,995 jackpot

the NC Education Lottery says Hinson took home $354,112.

“The Fast Play rolling jackpot grows with every ticket purchased.

When Hinson made his purchase, it had just reached $496,995,” the NC Education Lottery says in a release.

“Because he bought a $10 ticket, he won 100 percent of the jackpot.”

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

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