Nearly 10,000 players split $3.6 million in NC Lottery Pick 3 drawing

Comment #13

KY Floyd — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 01:04:27 GMT

You are probably supposed to pay tax on teh win

Gambling winnings are taxable income, so you're supposed to pay income tax on a $4 win from a $2 PB ticket if you don't have at least another $2 in losses to offset the $2 profit. I've always figured that the IRS doesn't worry too much about wins that are small enough to not require a 1099 because people who won prizes of less than $600 don't usually turn a profit, even if they come out ahead for that particular tax year.

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Comment #12

Stack47 — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 06:00:14 GMT

I forgot about the 50 cent and $1 front, back, and outside pairs, but not very many players use it.

Comment #11

kao1632 — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 02:24:49 GMT

I thought that load up meant the single ticket was worth more than $1 , rather than buy multiple tickets each worth $1 (or 50 cents).

Multiple tickets.. Yep. can see that not being a problem (Okay, so a single retailer might pitch a fit if asked to pay out on too many (taking all their cash)..

You are probably supposed to pay tax on teh win.. but there is no real record of it (It is income. Of course the IRD want's their share

Comment #10

Bleudog101 — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 13:46:22 GMT

KY lottery limits its pick 3/ pick 4 to $1.5 million/draw. They will forward my concerns to the appropriate folks, though won't hold my breath waiting for a change! They are very good about answering inquiries

Comment #9

sully16 — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:02:09 GMT

Congrats to all the winners, enjoy.

Comment #8

Bleudog101 — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 09:38:48 GMT

Some lucky soul in NC won $2 million in Powerball last night. That state seems to be a magnet for winners!

Look at California secondary prize for Powerball...over $3 million waiting to be won

Comment #7

Bleudog101 — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 09:29:24 GMT

Last night around 2015 hours went to play triples 000-999 for mid-day today...no problem. Go to do Quads, same scenario. Already 'liability limited' for 0000-4444. Did buy 5555-9999.

Today 0500 in the store and a lady tried to play the pick 3's and they were already sold out for Mid-day. She left a $1 in the machine, told her and she didn't react, so purchased her a Cashball 225 ticket and said enjoy your $170K after taxes tonight. Said meet me @ the store if I win, said no you keep it.

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Comment #6

KY Floyd — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 05:31:02 GMT

several of the tickets were 50 cent tickets.

$3,600,000 total payout for 9307 winning tickets is an average of $386.80 per ticket. Assuming the 9307 tickets really means 9307 individual bets, and assuming the only choices are 50 cents to win $250 or $1 to win $500 4,214 tickets were for 50 cents and 5093 were for $1.

Comment #5

Mata Garbo — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 04:54:03 GMT

In my state you are not required to fill out a tax form on a $500 win. If someone happens to get lucky and load up on a particular 3-digit number, they still would not be forced to pay taxes on the prizes since they would simply cash in the tickets one at a time at their local supermarkets. BTW .....I love the way you figured those odds, that's very interesting.

Comment #4

weshar75 — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 03:59:42 GMT

Nice win their for those players even $250 is still a nice prize.-weshar75

Comment #3

Stack47 — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 03:36:30 GMT

It's says 9307 winning tickets were sold . The lottery couldn't possibly know how many tickets each player bought and several of the tickets were 50 cent tickets.

Comment #2

kao1632 — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 01:56:56 GMT

It looks like the odds are 1:1000 (0-9 = 10 options.. three numbers. 10^3)

There are ten triples meaning.. they come up once every 100 draws (statistically).

And then you get the fact that some combinations are more attractive than others.. And I think 0-0-0 might be one of the more popular.

On a side note.. Not sure, but anyone loading 2 or more $ on the combination is going to be hit with withholding tax.. Not sure what happens if you only win the $500 (Is that still taxable? but an u... [ More ]

Comment #1

Mata Garbo — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 21:01:54 GMT

Wow!! .....9,307 players with the same number sequence on the same day. That's fantastic. It's amazing how many triples seem to appear in my state on days when I'm not playing triples. Congrats to all the winners, especially the people who loaded up and spent 10 or 15 dollars on that number, what a great investment.

Nearly 10,000 players split $3.6 million in NC Lottery Pick 3 drawing

Lottery Post — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 19:33:22 GMT

One popular number combination begets many winners

By Kate Northrop

Thousands of players across the state of North Carolina are splitting a whopping $3.6 million in the North Carolina Lottery's Pick 3 game thanks to a popular number combination.

The Pick 3 afternoon drawing on Friday, July 9 produced the lucky number combination 0-0-0, resulting in 9,307 tickets winning the game's top prize.

Players who matched all three numbers and bought a $1 ticket won $500, while those who... [ More ]