Lucille White of Wake Forest tried her luck on a $30 ticket and won a $1 million prize.
She purchased her winning $10,000,000 Colossal Cash ticket from Lowes Foods on Louisburg Road in Raleigh.
White claimed her prize Wednesday at lottery headquarters in Raleigh.
She had the choice of taking her prize as an annuity of $50,000 a year for 20 years or as a lump sum of $600,000.
White chose the $600,000 lump sum and, after state and federal tax withholdings, took home $424,509.
Ticket sales from scratch-offs like $10,000,000 Colossal Cash make it possible for the lottery to raise more than $725 million a year for education. For details on how $62.8 million raised by the lottery made a difference in Wake County in 2020, visit www.nclottery.com and click on the “Impact” section.