NC lottery ticket said she could bankroll $1M. Woman on grocery run hits the jackpot.
A North Carolina woman on a grocery run spotted a $10 scratch-off ticket that said she could bankroll $1 million. So she decided to buy one and hit the jackpot, lottery officials said Friday.
Maiden resident Sherri Burch bought her $1,000,000 Bankroll ticket at Countryside Food Mart in Statesville, according to a lottery news release.
She beat odds of 1 in 1.2 million, according to the $1,000,000 Bankroll ticket game page on NCLottery.com.
The last of eight top prizes in the game remains to be claimed.
The Catawba County resident didn’t say what she’ll do with the money when she claimed her prize at lottery headquarters in Raleigh Thursday, officials said. Burch didn’t return a phone message from The Charlotte Observer on Saturday.
Burch decided to take her prize as a $600,000 lump sum, according to the lottery. She also could have taken the prize as a $50,000 annuity over 20 years.
After taxes, Burch took home $427,503, officials said.
The lottery raises an average $2.5 million a day for education, according to NCLottery.com
Burch’s county has received $40 million in state grants through the lottery to help with school construction, officials said.
This story was originally published February 25, 2023 at 4:27 PM with the headline "NC lottery ticket said she could bankroll $1M. Woman on grocery run hits the jackpot.."