RALEIGH – Kenneth Roberts, a warehouse worker from Durham, plans to help renovate his parents’ home and travel after winning the $100,000 top prize in the lottery’s Mega Bucks game. Roberts learned of his win on Wednesday.

“My sister scratched it off for me,” Roberts said. “After I took it back to the store to scan it, I jumped for joy. I got very little sleep. I’m overwhelmed, but very happy.”

Roberts, who won $100 previously on a scratch-off ticket, received a check for $68,001. Roberts purchased the winning ticket at the Han-Dee Hugo on West Club Boulevard in Durham. As of Thursday afternoon, the game has eight $100,000 top prizes remaining to be claimed.

Since the lottery began through June 30 of this year, Durham County education programs received more than $40.1 million in lottery funds. By law, those funds pay for teachers’ salaries, school construction, need-based college scholarships and prekindergarten programs. Players in Durham County have won more than $102 million in prizes since the lottery’s inception.

To date, the N.C. Education Lottery has raised more than $2.1 billion for these initiatives statewide.