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Randolph County man wins $1 million in lottery

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Monday, September 28, 2009

(Updated 3:36 pm)

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For Ched Chriscoe, using two numbers from his wedding anniversary in Wednesday's Powerball drawing paid off big time.

The Seagrove resident won $1 million using those two numbers but having the remaining three numbers randomly chosen.

His ticket, which he bought at a Short Stop convenience store in Asheboro, matched all five numbers: 7, 8, 20, 25 and 29. He also matched the Power Play number, 5.

Chriscoe told the N.C. Education Lottery that he will share the more than $678,000 he received after taxes with his family.

He'll also use some of the money to fix up his house and will save the rest.

Another Randolph County resident also got lucky.

Winfred Smith Jr. of Staley won $211,657 playing Sunday's Carolina Cash 5 drawing.

The numbers were 2, 13, 14, 17 and 38.

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justified

September 28, 2009 - 7:39 pm EDT

Hey Ched
Old Buddy you remember me?
I'm your long lost cousin.

thirstytarheel

September 29, 2009 - 9:56 am EDT

The statement "He also matched the Power Play number, 5." is incorrect. As I understand the lottery, the power play number is selected like the other numbers and if you power play, which is spending an additional dollar your prize is multiplied by whatever the power play number is for that drawing. If the power play is 2 the amount is increased 2 times, if its 3 times the amount is increased 3 times, etc. You don't "match" the power play number. And in this case he matched 5 numbers and it automatically increased 5 times because he matched 5 numbers. It wouldn't have mattered what the power play number was. If he had not spent the additional dollar on his ticket the prize would have only been $200,000. Right now I'm trying to remember if I didn't loan him several hundred thousand dollars a few months ago.