Rowan County Man Wins $200,260 From Cash 5 Jackpot

When making a promise to buy your nephew a car, you live up to your promise like Rickey Gunthrope is doing after winning big. Salsbury resident Rickey Gunthrope can now keep his promise after winning a $200,260 Cash 5 jackpot on Sunday. After winning Mr. Gunthrope called his nephew and said we're going shopping for a car for you! That call had to be the best day, ever. Gunthrope bought his lucky $1 ticket from the Food Lion on North Salisbury Avenue in Spencer. It matched all five numbers to win the jackpot. Overall odds of winning a prize from the North Carolina lottery are 1 in 10.5. All jackpots are an estimate and are paid in accordance with NCEL game rules.

Gunthrope arrived at lottery headquarters a few hours later to collect his prize and, after required federal and state tax withholdings, took home $142,686. Cash 5 is one of six lottery games in North Carolina where players have the option of buying their tickets at a retail location or with Online Play through the lottery’s website or with the NC Lottery Official Mobile App. Tuesday’s Cash 5 jackpot is $110,000. For details on how $7.5 million raised by the lottery made a difference in Rowan County in 2022, visit www.nclottery.com and click on the “Impact” section.

What would you do if you won big in the lottery? I know the shock may surprise us all and put us in a daze for a second, but at some point, we've got to spend the money. So, what are we buying first? Well, let's start with finding a way to win the big prize first.

Lotto Edge is naming the top South Carolina lottery scratch-offs that you could play. Scratch-offs are some of the people's favorites to play throughout the years. Nice and quick and either you win or you don't but you find out pretty instantly. How do you pick which scratch-offs you play? Each scratch-off has its different odds of winning and it's good to know those odds to be able to help better your chances to win. Check out what Lotte Edge is naming as the top South Carolina lottery scratch-offs. Here are 6 out of the 10 that have the best overall odds of winning. Check out the full list here and see which other scratch-offs aren't listed below.

The 100X scratch-off is coming in at No. 6. The ticket costs about $1 each for you to be able to purchase to play. Your overall odds of winning are about 1 in 3.48. Not so bad, right? Win possibly $300,000 or more when playing this infamous scratch-off game in South Carolina. What would be the first thing you would purchase with that kind of grand prize?

Why not play King's Ransom up next? With King's Ransom, you have a possibility with a 1 in 3.47 odds of winning this lottery game. The ticket costs only $10 so talk about profit margin if you win big with this scratch off. Might as well give it a try.

Come on, $500,000 sounds like a good time! If you play the $500,000 Multiplier Money then you could really win big with this one. Only costing you $10 per ticket, you have the chance to win with a 1 in 3.44 odds of winning.

Coming in at No. 3 is another famous one that people love to play. The Mighty Jumbo Bucks scratch off is one of those ones that people love. Only $10 per ticket, you have the possibility to profit pretty BIG. You will have a 1 in 3.40 odds in winning this grand prize.

The prizes are getting bigger and the odds are getting better. Spend just $10 and you have the chance to be a million-dollar winner. Now, a million dollars can really do some crazy things to your life. With a 1 in 3.23 chance of winning, a million dollars could be yours!

Now, if you thought a million was a great time then what about $2 million? That's right, the Fastest Road to $2 million scratch off is the number one spot. With a 1 in 3.06 overall odds in winning, this could be the best chance for you to win big. It's the #1 scratch off for South Carolina.