27-06-2025
Lottery player wins $10K in NC — then wins $10M a week later. ‘Hard to fathom'
A lottery player coming off a recent big win had a 'gut feeling' and bought another ticket in North Carolina.
He won $10 million.
Christopher Sink of Winston-Salem hit the jackpot on a $50 scratch-off ticket in the $10 Million Spectacular game, the North Carolina Education Lottery announced June 27.
'I was really nervous at first,' he told lottery officials. 'It was kind of a crazy feeling.'
The new multimillionaire recounted he was at a convenience store when he felt compelled to buy a lottery ticket. Then he beat the 1-in-3,255,582 odds to win one of five top prizes in the scratch-off game.
'It just happened to be my lucky day,' he told lottery officials.
But it wasn't his only lucky day recently. Sink told the N.C. Education Lottery that he won $10,000 a week earlier on another ticket.
'It's kind of hard to fathom,' he said. 'I'm tickled to death about this.'
He collected his winnings as a lump sum of $6 million and walked away with $4,305,014 after taxes, according to the N.C. Education Lottery.
The construction business owner told lottery officials he plans to use his life-changing prize to buy equipment for work, invest and pay bills.
One top prize of $10 million remains in the game, which debuted in December 2023.
Winston-Salem in Forsyth County is about an 80-mile drive northeast from Charlotte.
