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New lottery game’s first $4 million winning ticket

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 菲律宾彩票包网公司,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.Millionaire Bucks, 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.A Mount Holly store sold a Cash 5 lottery ticket worth more than $1.1 million over the Memorial Day weekend.

Lee’s Quick Stop on North Main Street in Mount Holly sold the lucky ticket worth $1,127,585. The ticket beat odds of 1 in 962,598 to match all five numbers in the drawing. The winning numbers in the drawing were: 14-15-28-31-40.

Carolina Cash 5 tickets are $1 and drawings are held every night.The winner has not had a chance to come forward because offices were closed Monday for Memorial Day holiday.