(The Center Square) – Digital lottery games in North Carolina have come to the rescue to more than offset sagging sales of traditional lottery tickets. Without the new digital games, which can be played online without having to go to a store to purchase a ticket, state lottery revenues probably would have dropped so far this fiscal year, which ends June 30. Through May, total lottery sales in North Carolina were $4.9 billion, $857.3 million higher than the same date last year, thanks in large part to digital games, lottery officials said. May numbers tell the story of the success of digital ga…