ROWAN COUNTY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) -- As Barbara Stewart of Cleveland lay in her bed playing digital instant games, she initially got confused when she landed a $1.86 million jackpot.

"I really didn’t know what was going on,” she said. “It was unreal. I could not sleep at all after that.”

Stewart won the top-level “Grand Fortune” jackpot in the Monopoly game on a $1 play on Oct. 4.

The digital instant game features a progressive jackpot that can be won at any time. The odds of that win were 1 in 50 million.

“Something just told me to play Monopoly,” she said.

Stewart has three grandchildren and one great-grandchild, and she plans to use her big win to help take care of them.

“This came right on time,” Stewart said. “It’s a great feeling.”

She claimed her prize Friday at lottery he

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