Raleigh-area trucker checks lottery numbers, gets a shock: ‘What am I seeing’
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- Bruce Morgan of Clayton matched five numbers to win a $138,239 Cash 5 jackpot.
- Morgan bought an online ticket for the May 18 drawing and beat 1 in 962,598 odds.
- After taxes, Morgan claimed $99,546 at lottery headquarters on June 12 and will pay bills.
A Raleigh-area man said a gut feeling led him to play the lottery. Now, he’s celebrating a huge jackpot win.
Bruce Morgan of Clayton recalled the moment he realized he netted a $138,239 Cash 5 jackpot.
“I was making a delivery and I pulled over to check my numbers and I was like, ‘Wait a minute, what am I seeing,’” the truck driver told the North Carolina Education Lottery.
Morgan bought an online ticket in the May 18 drawing and matched all five numbers, beating odds of 1 in 962,598 to snag the game’s top prize, officials said.
Lottery winning numbers
The winning numbers were 29-32-36-40-42.
“I still don’t think it has registered,” Morgan said.
He claimed his prize at lottery headquarters on Friday, June 12, and took home $99,546 after taxes.
Morgan said he already has plans for his winnings, including paying a few bills.
Other big NC lottery wins
It marks the latest in a string of hefty lottery wins across the Tar Heel State. Earlier this month, a Concord man netted a $100,000 jackpot prize on a scratch-off game he purchased at a local Harris Teeter.
Chapel Hill resident Robert Goss also won $100,000 playing Powerball in May and described his stroke of luck as “kind of a fluke.”
A lottery player in Fayetteville turned their $5 scratch-off into a $200,000 windfall and, before that, a FastPlay ticket sold at a Publix Supermarket in Cary won a $1,578,846 jackpot — the largest in the lottery game’s history, officials said.
Portions of this story previously appeared in The Charlotte Observer.
This story was originally published June 16, 2026 at 1:30 PM with the headline "Raleigh-area trucker checks lottery numbers, gets a shock: ‘What am I seeing’."