RALEIGH – A mother supplied the funds and the daughter the good luck as the two played a crossword-themed lottery game that spelled out a $100,000 prize.

The win came after Sue Gleiter and her daughter, Ashley, both of Greensboro, stopped recently at a Circle K on New Garden Road in Greensboro. Sue gave Ashley a winning ticket with a $50 prize and the daughter used the prize money to buy some additional tickets, including one from her favorite game, Bonus Corners Crosswords.

Later, back at home, they scratched the tickets. They thought they won $100 on the crossword-themed ticket, and Ashley returned to the store to claim this prize too. “She came back home,” Sue Gleiter said Monday, “honking her horn and screaming, ‘We didn’t win $100. We won $100,000!’”

Sue Gleiter said since she had agreed to share the $100 win with her daughter she stuck to the agreement, splitting the award into two $50,000 prizes. “She picked out a ticket that I never would have picked,” she said. After the required federal and state tax withholdings, they each took home $34,625.

“We were both relieved and very excited,” the mother said Monday. “We just couldn’t believe it. It was like a fantasy come true.”

The $5 Bonus Corners Crossword game has been on sale since May. As of Monday, one top prize of $100,000 remains to be claimed.

Ticket sales made it possible for the lottery to raise more than half a billion dollars for the state last year. For details on how $178 million in lottery funds have made a difference in Guilford County, click on the “Where the Money Goes” tab on the lottery’s website.