A North Carolina woman won $2 million after buying a lottery ticket for a drawing she was not trying to enter.
Elizabeth Johnson of Lucama, about 50 miles east of Raleigh, rushed to get her numbers into a Wednesday night Powerball drawing but missed the 9:57 p.m. cutoff by one minute to buy a ticket with Online Play, according to lottery officials.
Her Quick Pick ticket was good for the drawing three days later, though, which earned her a $2 million prize.
Her lucky $3 Power Play ticket matched the numbers on all five white balls to win $1 million, which doubled to $2 million when the 2X multiplier was drawn. The odds of matching all five white balls are 1 in 11.6 million, lottery officials say.
“It was definitely a shock,” Johnson said in a news release. “When I got the message saying that I had won, I thought, ‘Well, I didn’t even play tonight.'”
Johnson took home $1,415,001 after taxes. She plans to buy a house and go on vacation with her new earnings.
“The kids want to go to Disneyland,” she said. “We’ve never been, and now we’ll get to.”
The CNN Wire contributed to this report.
