A majority of the state's tickets are printed in Alpharetta, Ga., by Scientific Games, which has an eight-year contract with the North Carolina Lottery Commission to print the tickets. Scratch-off tickets - a type of instant game - don't begin their journey in North Carolina.
Her question: Are scratch-off tickets distributed to the same counties in the same sequence every month?
So she posed a question to CuriousNC, a joint venture between The News & Observer, The Charlotte Observer and The Herald-Sun that invites readers to submit questions about North Carolina for their reporters to answer. Jackson, who lives in Charlotte, became curious about the distribution of the thousands of scratch-off tickets that are sold at nearly 7,000 locations across the state. Pat Jackson thought perhaps someone had done that when she read about a couple that won a $10,000 scratch-off prize and then a $1 million scratch-off prize on the same day in different counties. What would you do if you won the lottery?Īnd what if you could figure out a system that would help you win it? All rights reserved.Home › Lottery News › How North Carolina scratch-off lottery tickets are distributed How North Carolina scratch-off lottery tickets are distributedĪug 8, 2018, 8:29 am ( 19 comments) Share Tweet Copy Link The lottery raised $936 million to support education programs in North Carolina from record lottery ticket sales of $3.8 billion, up 26 percent from the year before.ĭenton said the state budget for education in North Carolina is $13 billion so, he explained the lottery is a small but important part in funding education.Ĭopyright 2021 WECT. The lottery posted a record-breaking year in sales during fiscal year 2021. Bladen County got a $15 million grant to help build a new school and Columbus County got two grants totaling $15 million.” In the most recent info we have from the state about $11 million a year is going to New Hanover County to support education, about $5.4 for Brunswick County and we have some really exciting things happening in Bladen and Columbus County. “It’s to raise money for a great cause, education. “That’s the reason we have a lottery in North Carolina,” he said. North Carolina has more scratch-off choices and bigger scratch-off prizes than South Carolina.ĭenton said as winners take home big jackpots and small prizes, the real winners are schools in North Carolina. “You find people from South Carolina who find our games fun and exciting and so they come over and play games in North Carolina,” he said. If you look at the growth you’ll find a lot of people are coming from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, places where lottery has been part of the culture for a long time and they bring that play to Brunswick County.”ĭenton said the store also takes advantage of its location near the North and South Carolina border. Y’all know this, Brunswick County is enjoying a lot of growth right now and some of that play comes from that growth.
When our sales reps go into the store there, clerks say, ‘Hey, are we still number one?’ So, they are very excited about selling lottery and that probably is one reason why they have lots of sales. “They’re one of the top selling stores in the state.
“That’s a great store for lottery sales,” said Van Denton, Director of Communications for the NC Education Lottery.