Buncombe County man wins $100,000 lottery jackpot with $1 Cash 5 ticket

Todd Runkle, Asheville Citizen Times
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An Arden man bought a Cash 5 ticket for $1 and ended up winning a $100,000 prize.

Eddie Sasser bought his lucky Quick Pick ticket for the May 29 drawing using Online Play, according to an N.C. Education Lottery news release. The winning numbers were 9-13-15-23-32. The odds of matching numbers on all five white balls are 1 in 962,598.

Sasser claimed his prize at lottery headquarters in Raleigh on June 20, the news release said. He took home $71,500 after tax withholdings.

Cash 5 June 20 numbers

June 20 Cash 5 numbers were 3, 19, 29, 32 and 33.

One lucky person matched all five balls to win the $130,000 jackpot. The jackpot for tonight's drawing, June 21, resets to $100,000.

Pick 3 numbers, Pick 4 numbers for June 20

Pick 4

Daytime: The daytime Pick 4 winning numbers for June 20 were 9, 4, 7 and 4, with a Fireball number of 8.

Evening: The evening winning numbers were 3, 4, 0 and 3, with a Fireball number of 5. See the Pick 4 webpage for details.

Pick 3

Daytime: The daytime Pick 3 winning numbers were 9, 2 and 4, with a Fireball number of 2.

Evening: The evening winning numbers were 5, 2 and 6, with a Fireball number of 3. See the Pick 3 webpage for details.

Todd Runkle is the Carolinas Connect editor and a content coach for the Asheville Citizen Times, part of the USA TODAY Network. Reach him at trunkle@citizentimes.com.

This article originally appeared on Asheville Citizen Times: NC Education Lottery: Buncombe County man wins $100,000 in Cash 5