North Carolina man wins Cash 5 lottery prize worth $218,613

Sometimes our mistakes make us learn good life lessons, same happened with a man from North Carolina who made a mistake while buying lottery ticket and ended up winning huge lottery prize. 

A man named David Lewandowski tried to buy a ticket Sunday for that day's Cash 5 drawing, but he didn't realize until the next day that he had failed to complete the purchase online.

When he completed the purchase next day, he won the $218,613 jackpot in Monday's Cash 5 drawing. 

Lewandowski told lottery officials that he plays lottery games with his own set of randomly selected numbers and he is also a regular lottery player. 

He plans to use his winnings to make a down payment on a condo in Puerto Rico.

Cash Jackpots begin at $100,000 and grow until there is a 5-of-5 winner sometimes reaching $1 million.

Games cost $1 each ($2 with an add on feature ez match (which improves top prize odds to 1 in 84,000 & overall odds to 1 in 4.71) $2 with double play, and $3 with ez match and double play).

Overall odds of winning: 1 in 10.51; odds of winning the top prize: 1 in 962,598.