FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (News Release) — In two days, LaKisa McKethan of Fayetteville will get a chance to spin a giant prize wheel and try to land a $2 million prize.
The chance comes as part of the lottery’s unique Bigger $pin game that begins with a scratch-off ticket and ends with a winner attending a Bigger $pin Live Event. At Wednesday’s event, McKethan will walk up to a giant prize wheel and give it a spin with the chance of landing on a prize ranging from $400,000 to $2 million.
“I’ll be excited, nervous, everything, probably have butterflies,” McKethan said.
The once-in-a-lifetime opportunity began when McKethan, after working her third shift job, stopped at the VA VA Food Mart on Cumberland Road in Fayetteville and purchased a $10 Bigger $pin scratch-off.
“I was gonna wait,” she recalled, “but I always knew the early bird gets the worm. I was like ‘whoa’ and I was in shock.”
McKethan credits her young son for her good fortune. She said he told her he prayed for her to win a million dollars so she wouldn’t have to worry about money.
To cheer McKethan on, watch the lottery’s live video feed on its Facebook page at 1 p.m. on Wednesday.
McKethan is the third person to get a chance to win one of the $2 million prizes. At the first event in November, a retired Greensboro postal worker won $900,000 and a Durham cook won $400,000. Three more chances to win $2 million are up for grabs. Two more people can win a turn at the prize wheel on the scratch-off and a third person can win a turn in a second-chance drawing. All Bigger $pin tickets can be entered into the drawing.
The $2 million prize in the Bigger $pin game is four times bigger than the prize offered in the Big $pin game two years ago.
Ticket sales from scratch-off games make it possible for the lottery to raise more than $900 million a year for education. For details on how lottery funds have helped all of North Carolina’s 100 counties, click on the “Impact” section of the lottery’s website, https://www.nclottery.com.
