A Maiden woman in Catwba County, North Carolina won $1 million in the lottery after trying your luck with a $10 scratch-off.
According to the North Carolina Education Lottery, the lucky winner’s name is Sherri Burch, who bought the scratch-off at Countryside Food Mart on Salisbury Road in Statesville.
Sherri bought a scratch-off called $1,000,000 Bankroll whose jackpot is precisely $1 million. According to information from the state lottery, the odds of winning this prize are 1 in 1,203,684.
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How much did the woman who won $1 million from the $10 Scratch-Off take home?
He announcement of the lottery indicates that Sherri went to lottery headquarters Thursday and had the choice of taking a $50,000 20-year annuity or a $600,000 lump sum.
Sherri chose the lump sum of $600,000 so, after state and federal taxes, took home $427,503.
According to the North Carolina Education Lottery, Scratch-Offs make it possible for them to raise an average of $2.5 million per day for education.
“Catawba County received $40 million in state grants with money raised by the lottery to help with school construction,”
noted the lottery in a statement.
The page for the game that made the Catawba woman a millionaire notes that the game was launched with a total of 8 jackpots, of which 1 is still to be won.
