Orange County man wins $100K in second-chance lottery drawing

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Saturday, April 12, 2025 3:22PM
Lottery player wins NC record $6.7M digital instant jackpot
The winner bought a $2 Monopoly ticket and instantly won the Grand Fortune jackpot of $6.7 million.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) -- A Orange County man won the 100,000 top prize Wednesday in a second-chance drawing.

Christopher Lunsford of Chapel Hill found out he won in the third and final Money Rush Second Chance drawings when he got a phone call from the lottery. There were over 7.7 million entries.

"It's so overwhelming I don't know what to even say," he said. "Never in my life did I expect something like this."

Lunsford plans give some of his winnings to his church and potentially buy a home.

Players got a second chance with their Money Rush scratch-offs by scanning them into their lottery accounts and were automatically entered into the drawing.

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