'I came in to cash a ticket, won $100, went in the truck scratched it, came back, won another $50.What is the Best State for $10 Scratch off Tickets? 'I play because I feel like I got good luck,' a customer back at Eagle’s Express told WRAL Investigates. While overall odds show most tickets turn out nothing in return, sometimes you can beat the odds. 'I grew up with my daddy playing long before North Carolina got the lottery.' ' as many as my bank account will allow,' Alan Murray of Raleigh told WRAL Investigates. Finally, Tobacco Plus in Warrenton tied for the most frequent big wins in Warren County, but ranked eighth in sales.įor consistent lottery players, it's the hope the next ticket is the big one. Vance County's Kittrell Grocery was 12th in sales, but No. Tops in $1,000-plus winners, 22nd in sales in Wayne County. The list includes Wake, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Johnston, Moore, Orange, Northampton, Vance, Warren and Wayne counties.Īmong the 'luckiest' stores, the Five Points Food Mart in Wayne County's Goldsboro. WRAL Investigates found that was the case in nearly half the counties in central North Carolina. The Valero is not alone in leading a county with big wins, but not sales. Those winners fill up the store like wallpaper, including a $50,000 jackpot in past couple of weeks. 'A lot of customers come over here because they see the winning dollar amounts,' Motora said. Motora takes pride in his sales and wins. 'It’s nice to see my regular customers who won,' store owner Tes Motora said. The Valero on Raleigh's Glenwood Avenue had 26 big winners, despite ranking 17th in the county in scratch-off sales. While the sales at Eagles Express equated to the highest overall payouts in the county, another store ran away with most big wins of $1,000-plus. Big money, not little money,' one customer told us. 'You look around you see all the tickets hanging up, someone’s always winning here.

With those sales, come winners of all sizes.

1 in Wake County and fourth in the entire state. With more than $2.7 million in scratch-off sales, it was No. 'I play scratch-offs every day,' one man told us at Eagles Express in the Wake County town of Knightdale. WRAL Investigates went through sales and prize data for every store in the state to see who was selling the most and who had the most big winners of $1,000 or more.

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