GRANITE FALLS, N.C. — A person in a town in North Carolina beat the odds of 1 in 11.6 million to win the Powerball drawing on Saturday night.
A shop on Granite Falls’s Connelly Springs Road sold a ticket for $2 that could win $1 million.
Lottery officials say the chances of getting all five white balls with the same number are 1 in 11.6 million.
In the drawing on Saturday, a $100,000 prize was won by a ticket bought at Harris Teeter on Horton Road in Durham.
Each winner in North Carolina has 180 days to claim their prize.
The Powerball prize for Monday is $208 million. One in 292 million people will win the prize.