Well, it seems the scratch-off gods have smiled down upon Granville County, with local resident Elizabeth Agueda Arizmendi clinching the first $100,000 prize in the new "Millionaire Bucks" lottery game. As reported by ABC11, Arizmendi purchased the auspicious $30 ticket from Wegmans on Davis Drive in Morrisville, a choice that would soon prove to be life-altering.
In a turn of events designed to make anyone rush out to their nearest lottery retailer, Arizmendi went to the lottery headquarters in Raleigh this Thursday to quickly claim her hefty prize. Now, here's where things get a tad less exciting – after the fun part of taxes dipped its hands into the cookie jar, snagging state and federal cuts, she emerged with $71,509. As CBS17 puts it, that's what she took home, which, let's face it, is not to sneeze at.
Introduced only this month, the Millionaire Bucks scratch-off game is the NC Lottery's latest cash cow, with palpable excitement around its four $5 million top prizes and the fleet of $100,000 windfalls up for grabs. With Arizmendi setting the precedent as the first winner of the latter, nine more are out there somewhere, playing a coy game of hide and seek with future winners.
For those keeping tabs, the score now reads: four $5 million capstone rewards and nine $100,000 prizes still eagerly waiting to be claimed, as NC Lottery News reminds us.
