RALEIGH – Regina Ritter, a telecommunications coordinator from Robbins in Moore County, plans to use the $200,000 she scratched off on her Extreme Green ticket to help her family and take a vacation.

Ritter was sitting in her car scratching an Extreme Green ticket she purchased at AD’s Convenience Store on Highway 22 in Bennett on Friday. Though she didn’t win, something told her to purchase one more.

“I just had a feeling,” Ritter said. “It was ticket No. 55 on the roll. I knew that number 56 was going to be the winner. I walked in and got it, came back to the car and just sat there thinking it wasn’t real. I didn’t believe it. When it started sinking in, I started jumping up and down.”

After taxes were withheld, Ritter received a check for $136,001. As of Monday, five top prizes remain to be claimed in the Extreme Green game.

“Don’t give up,” Ritter said to hopeful lottery players. “There are prizes out there. There are winners. I feel really good.”

Since the lottery began through June 30 of 2011, Moore County education programs received more than $11.7 million in lottery funds. By law, those funds pay for teachers’ salaries, school construction, need-based college scholarships and prekindergarten programs.

To date, the N.C. Education Lottery has raised more than $2.2 billion for these initiatives statewide.