Thanks to you and your play of lottery games, the lottery raised $670 million in fiscal year 2018 for education programs in North Carolina. That’s the most in a single year ever.
Education wasn’t the only big winner. Players won big too as the lottery awarded the most prize money ever, $1.65 billion. Seventy times during the year, players won a prize of $1 million or more. The biggest wins of the year were four $10 million top prizes from the Extreme Million and Ultimate Millions scratch-off games.
In all, lottery ticket sales totaled $2.6 billion at the end of the fiscal year on June 30, according to final but unaudited results. Ticket sales have gone up every year since the lottery started. More and more businesses have joined the lottery as retail partners. The lottery now has 7,021 retail locations across our state.
The results show how much North Carolinians enjoy playing lottery games and winning prizes as they help raise money for a good cause. If you look at one happens every day across the state, you would see:
• $7.1 million a day in sales.
• $4.5 million a day in prizes.
• $1.8 million a day raised for education.
The money raised by the state benefits every county in the state. The additional funds help counties build and repair schools, help North Carolina students cover the costs of college, support school systems and provide pre-school for four-year-olds in every county of the state. At the end of June, the total amount raised since the start of the lottery had climbed past $5.8 billion.
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