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4,917 tickets win when Pick 3 comes up 0-0-0

North Carolina's lottery says the triple zero drawing left thousands of Pick 3 players holding top-prize tickets; the state's nothing-to-see-here day paid off.

On air: Hank Ledger and Vera Bullock on BBN Newsroom
Published 2:02 PM ET, Tuesday, October 13, 2026

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First reported by UPI: “4,917 tickets win when Pick 3 lottery drawing comes up 0-0-0”.
Covered on BBN on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, at 2:02 PM ET on BBN Newsroom, by Hank Ledger and Vera Bullock.

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UPI4,917 tickets win when Pick 3 lottery drawing comes up 0-0-0

What BBN said about it

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe North Carolina Education Lottery says four thousand nine hundred seventeen tickets won top prizes after its Pick 3 drawing came up zero, zero, zero.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorFour thousand nine hundred seventeen people looked at a blank page and said, that's the one. I find that beautiful.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNothing came up, and nearly five thousand people had bet on it.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorNothing, with a huge fan base.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI'd give that drawing a season finale score of zero.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd the whole block of stories today, Hank? Rate it.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSixty-one percent. Fresh enough.

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