Charlotte Mom’s Persistence Pays Off With Lottery Win

I preface this with saying, that there's no one way to win lottery jackpots. I've written about people who had Chinese food the night before, saw the numbers on the back of his/her fortune cookies, thought, "Why not?!' then bought a ticket and won. I wrote just last week about a man who found a twenty-dollar bill in a parking lot, went in, bought a scratch-off ticket and won. And now, we have someone with a more measured and deliberate approach to financial windfall.

Charlotte's Kimberly Campbell is a regular player. And by regular, I mean she plays the North Carolina Education Lottery's "Cash 5" game almost every day. People who do this go by the theory of, "If I play the same numbers consistently, then eventually mine are going to be the ones." It's hard to argue Campbell's method after last Saturday.

Kimberly Campbell defied the odds of matching numbers on all five balls (1 in 962,598) and her ship came in to the tune of $100,000. According to the North Carolina Education Lottery website, Kimberly claims, “For the first 24 hours after I found out I was floating on a cloud."

I imagine the added ballast of $71,501 after taxes brought her feet back to Earth. <g> Kimberly Campbell plans to use the money for a down payment on a house.

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There are some states that are luckier than others. There is no doubt about it. North Carolina made the list of 15 lucky states in the United States, according to OLBG. Everyone has fantasized about winning the lottery, whether it's the Mega Millions or the Powerball. Whether you're planning a lavish vacation, buying a house, treating a loved one, giving to charity, or all of the above, when we buy a ticket we always have a little bit of hope and our imaginations go wild when we hear about the unclaimed winning ticket...

When it comes to winning big on the lottery, which states are the luckiest? To determine where in America has the greatest likelihood of winning the big bucks, OLBG analyzed all lottery winners in the U.S. with a jackpot of $300 million or more. You can see the top 15 states below.

California was ranked 12th luckiest state despite having the highest number of big lottery winners, primarily because the state has such a large population that there are very few lottery winners, and the average winning ticket for a California winner is only $190.5 million.

North Carolina has won a whopping $1.1 billion between both lottery winners, making its average winning ticket $550 million, the highest in the country. As a result of its higher population, North Carolina didn't quite capture the title by itself, with a lower percentage of its population winning than New Hampshire.

In terms of lottery jackpot winners, New Hampshire and North Carolina share the gold for the luckiest states. Residents in New Hampshire have won a total of $693.7 million, which is an average of $346.85 million per winning ticket. As one of the states with the highest percentage of people who have won over $300 million, New Hampshire has the third smallest population.