{"id":22240,"date":"2026-03-01T13:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=22240"},"modified":"2026-03-01T13:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:10:44","slug":"nc-lottery-means-to-change-the-life-of-this-shelby-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=22240","title":{"rendered":"NC Lottery means to change the life of this Shelby woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">Annette Tennal of Shelby sat in her car Saturday playing digital instant games while her husband drove when out of the blue she hit a $676,572 jackpot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hit it, and then I got to hollering,\u201d she laughed. \u201cHe didn\u2019t know what was going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tennal, a grandmother of four, said she didn\u2019t believe the win at first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, \u2018Is this real,\u2019\u201d she said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">THEY GOT LUCKY: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shelbystar.com\/story\/news\/local\/2026\/01\/01\/2025-big-lottery-winners-from-gaston-and-cleveland-nc-counties\/87960919007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland and Gaston-area residents hit the lottery jackpot in 2025<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tennal played for $10 and won the top level \u2018Epic jackpot\u2019 in the Bison Bonanza game. The digital instant game features a progressive jackpot that can be won any time. The odds of that win are 1 in 3.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI texted some of my family, and they sent me back the dancing emojis,\u201d Tennal said.<\/p>\n<p>She claimed her prize Thursday at lottery headquarters and, after required federal and state tax withholdings, took home $487,202.<\/p>\n<p>She plans to use her winnings to pay bills and buy a new car.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the Bison Bonanza digital instant game, a player can play from 50 cents to $30. After Tennal won the jackpot, it restarted at $50,000 and has grown to over $141,000 as of Friday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Digital instant games are played exclusively online on the lottery\u2019s website or on the NC Lottery Official Mobile App. Sixty-six different games are available to play online now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Education programs in Cleveland County received $6.4 million in support from lottery funds last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shelbystar.com\/story\/news\/lottery\/2026\/02\/27\/nc-lottery-means-to-change-the-life-of-this-shelby-woman\/88897470007\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annette Tennal of Shelby sat in her car Saturday playing digital instant games while her husband drove when out of the blue she hit a $676,572 jackpot. \u201cI hit it, and then I got to hollering,\u201d she laughed. \u201cHe didn\u2019t know what was going on.\u201d Tennal, a grandmother of four, said she didn\u2019t believe the &#8230; <a title=\"NC Lottery means to change the life of this Shelby woman\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=22240\" aria-label=\"Read more about NC Lottery means to change the life of this Shelby woman\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/NC-Lottery-means-to-change-the-life-of-this-Shelby.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22242,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22240\/revisions\/22242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}