Wake County man bags $1M top prize in lottery scratch-off game
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — A Wake County man bagged a huge prize when he gambled $10 on a scratch-off ticket.
Jared Smith, of Fuquay-Varina, bought a 50X The Cash ticket from Harris Teeter on East Broad Street in Fuquay-Varina.
He scratched it off and won a $1 million top prize.
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On Tuesday, Smith went to lottery headquarters in Raleigh to claim his prize. Given the choice of an annuity of $50,000 for 20 years or a lump sum of $600,000, he took the latter, and after required tax withholdings, took home $432,063.
The 50X The Cash game debuted in January with 12 top prizes of $1 million. Ten of those $1 million prizes remain to be claimed.
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