RALEIGH – James Glasscock, a retired bank worker from Charlotte, plans to use the $150,000 prize he won playing the Jumbo Jingle Bucks game to save for the future and share with his children.

Glasscock bought the $5 ticket last Wednesday at the Circle K on Pineville-Matthews Road in Charlotte. Sitting in his car outside the store, he scratched it to find out if he won a prize.

“At first I thought I had won just ten dollars,” Glasscock said. “Then I looked a little closer. After that, I made sure that if I went somewhere, the ticket went with me.”

Glasscock is the first player to win the game’s top prize since it went on sale Nov. 4. After state and federal taxes were withheld, he received a check for $103,801. As of Tuesday afternoon, two more $150,000 top prizes remain to be claimed in the game.

Ticket sales have made it possible for the lottery to raise more than $3.5 billion for the state. North Carolina Education Lottery net proceeds will be used this year to help pay salaries of teachers and teacher assistants, for pre-kindergarten programs for at-risk four-year-olds, school construction and repair, and need-based college scholarships and financial aid.

For details on how more than $255 million in lottery funds have made a difference in Mecklenburg County, click on the “Where the Money Goes” tab on the lottery’s website.