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Three people in North Carolina won $150,000 prizes in the Saturday, Dec. 20, Powerball drawing and one of them got their $3 ticket at a Harris Teeter in Charlotte, according to the North Carolina Education Lottery.

It was purchased at Harris Teeter #88 at 13000 South Tryon Street, lottery officials said in a social media post. That is in Steelecroft Shopping Center, at the intersection of South Tryon and Steele Creek Road.

The two other $150,000-winning tickets were sold at Gates Food Mart in Gatesville and at the 7 Eleven on Caratoke Highway in Moyock, lottery officials said.

Another Powerball ticket sold in Charlotte won $50,000 in Saturday’s drawing, officials said. Details of where it was purchased were not released.

“Saturday night marked nine straight Powerball drawings with North Carolinians winning prizes of at least $50,000 and seven straight with at least a $100,000 winner,” N.C. lottery officials said in a news release.

The winning numbers Dec. 20 were: 4, 5, 28, 52, 69, 20.

No one got the grand prize, which has climbed to $1.6 billion. Odds of winning it are 1 in 292,201,338.00, according to Powerball officials.

“If you won, you could claim the jackpot as $1.6 billion annuity or $735.3 million in cash. You would win the fourth largest Powerball jackpot and fifth largest among U.S. lottery jackpots,” N.C. lottery officials said.