North Carolina Smart Pick (2024)

FAQs

How does the NC Pick 3 work? ›

Ways To Win

The Pick 3 top prize is won by matching all 3 winning numbers in the exact order drawn. Additional prizes can be won based on play type. The numbers you select determine the ways to win. When you add Fireball to Pick 3, you get an extra drawn-number for more combinations to match and win.

North Carolina lottery winning numbers and news including Carolina Pick 3 and Carolina Pick 4, Powerball, and Mega Millions. Watch the live drawings on WRAL. The North Carolina Education Lottery began in 2005.

Which lottery games can I play with Online Play? You can play Powerball, Mega Millions, Carolina Pick 3, Carolina Pick 4, Carolina Cash 5 and Lucky for Life.

Yes. You can purchase tickets online through the mobile North Carolina Lottery app. The mobile app offers draw-based and scratch off (instant win) games available for purchase. You can even check for draw-based and scratch off lottery wins on the app.

Pick three is simple. Every day, you and your team engage in three simple tasks related to customer retention. Now, you might call three new clients or maybe you'll reach out to three lost clients. Perhaps you'll send three handwritten notes or maybe even send three unexpected gifts to your top clients.

A combo is a play covering all straight combinations of a 3-digit number and will cost $1.50 to $6.00 depending upon the amount played (50 cents or $1.00) and the number of like digits in the 3-digit number selected.

§ 18C‑134. Setoff for debt collection against lottery prizes. (a) Purpose. – The Commission must establish a debt set‑off program by which lottery prize payments may be used to satisfy a debt owed or collected by a claimant agency that is at least fifty dollars ($50.00).

Daytime Pick 3 and Pick 4 drawings are held at 3 p.m. daily. They can be seen as live or on-demand video.

By law, lottery funds go to pay for school construction, need-based college financial aid, transportation, salaries for non-instructional support staff, and pre-kindergarten for at-risk four-year-olds. The State Lottery Act outlines how each and every dollar produced by the lottery will be spent.

Odds of winning the lottery in NC

Lottery players in North Carolina have the best odds of winning the Carolina Pick 3 contest, with a 1 in 1,000 chance of selecting three numbers in the order they are drawn to win $500, according to the N.C. Education Lottery.

Who can take your lottery winnings in NC online? ›

Unless you sign the ticket, anyone else who has the ticket can claim the prize. How long do I have to collect a prize? For instant scratch-off games, you have 90 days from the official announced end of game.

Buy, Scan, and Earn with the NC Lottery Official Mobile App

Designed with you in mind, the NC Lottery Official Mobile App allows you to: Check your tickets (for draw games and/or scratch-offs) to see if you have a winner.

No person under the age of 18 years shall purchase a lottery ticket or share.

If the Yellow Ball is drawn, a second Pick 3 drawing will take place immediately following the first. Prizes will be paid on both sets of numbers drawn. That's why we call it Double Draw. If a White Ball is drawn, the next evening's drawing will take place with one fewer White Ball until a Yellow Ball is drawn.

You can: Check winning numbers on the lottery's website, on the lottery's mobile app, and at all locations where lottery tickets are sold. Use a ticket checker at the store to scan a bar code and see if a ticket is a winner. Use the ticket checking function on the lottery's app, the NC Lottery Official Mobile App.

In any Pick 3 game, there are 3 digit positions, with each position containing a digit from 0 to 9. If one were to list all of the possible combinations of digits in each of the three positions, there would be a total of 1,000 different number combinations.

When you play Pick 3 Plus FIREBALL, you replace any one of the Pick 3 winning numbers drawn with the FIREBALL number to create FIREBALL prizewinning combinations. You win a prize if your selected numbers match any of the FIREBALL prizewinning combinations! All FIREBALL prizes are in addition to any base game wins.