New lottery game’s first $4 million winning ticket was sold

New lottery game’s first $4 million winning ticket was sold


A woman from Iredell County bought a $20 lottery ticket at a Charlotte gas station.Cynthia Cutting of Statesville won the first $4 million prize playing the new scratch-off game “Millionaire Bucks,” officials with the N.C. Education Lottery announced Monday.Get more news about 彩票包网平台,you can vist loto98.com

Cutting took home a lump sum of nearly $1.7 million after taxes from the lottery headquarters in Raleigh on Thursday, according to a news release.Officials said the prize-winning ticket was sold at Times Turnaround, a gas station on West W.T. Harris Boulevard.

At least one other winning ticket was previously sold at the same gas station — a $100,000 Powerball ticket in 2013, The Daily News in Jacksonville reported.

which launched June 2, is a scratch-off game where matching numbers net prizes between $20 and $4 million, according to the Education Lottery’s website. Three of the $4 million prizes have not been claimed, as are five of the $100,000 prizes and 37 of the $10,000 prizes.

The overall odds of winning any of the prizes playing Millionaire Bucks is one in 3.06, the website states. Cutter had a one in 1.35 million chance of winning the top prize.