Numbers are off on the lottery.

• Position: Statewide

Stores in eastern counties sold the most tickets per adult in the latest fiscal year; sales were slowest in the west. HIGHEST Sales per adult * Nash $530.09 Vance 483.92 Edgecombe 473.18 Halifax 472.67 Washington 426.06 Hyde 424.67 Wilson 421.43 Lenoir 415.94 Bertie 381.27 Martin 372.36 LOWEST Sales per adult * Madison $40.91 Clay 42.42 Graham 60.54 Swain 66.75 Yancey 71.21 Cherokee 78.37 Watauga 78.54 Macon 83.67 Polk 85.75 Transylvania 92.65 TICKET MASTERS Three of the top 10 lottery-ticket retailers in fiscal 2010 were in Cumberland County. Store County Sales (000s) 1 Rose Mart No. 14 Wilson $2,656.1 2 Reilly Road BP Amoco -Cumberland 1,963.9 3 Raceway Edgecombe 1,454.6 4 Tony's Friendly Mart No. 1 Lenoir 1,404.5 5 Catamount Travel Center Jackson 1,379.9 6 O'Ryans Quik Stop Person 1,372.3 7 The Food Mart No. 17 Wake 1,323.9 8 Bobby Taylor Oil No. 2 Cumberland 1,306.5 9 C Mini Mart No. 3 Wake 1,268.2 10 Ponderosa Exxon Cumberland 1,208.8 Buying a lottery ticket has become an occasional source of entertainment for many North Carolinians since the state began peddling them five years ago. Sales in the fiscal year that ended in June reached a record $1.4 billion. People kept shelling out through the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, hoping against long odds for big payoffs that would put them on Easy Street...