Elm City Woman Wins $4.7M Digital Lottery Jackpot

Cesaltina Ribeiro of Elm City won a $4.7 million jackpot playing the $1 digital instant game Outlaw’s Loot, marking the second largest digital instant prize in North Carolina lottery history. She won the progressive jackpot with odds of 1 in 50 million and took home $3,374,512 after taxes, planning to invest, take a family vacation, and buy a house. Outlaw’s Loot is a multi-state digital instant game offered in North Carolina, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, and the jackpot resets and grows quickly after each win. The North Carolina Lottery offers 48 digital instant games exclusively online through its website and mobile app. Additionally, the Florida Lottery announced that Isadora Thompson of Orlando won $1 million playing the Bonus Letter Crossword scratch-off game, choosing a lump sum payout of $640,000; scratch-off games make up a significant portion of lottery sales and funding for education in Florida. These stories highlight lottery games' growing popularity and their impact on players’ lives and state education funding.