A $5 lottery ticket brought a fun kind of “mayhem” to the home of a Jacksonville family on Tuesday night when the mother, Carol Person, discovered it was worth $150,000.

Just before going to bed Tuesday night, Person began scratching one of four lottery tickets she had purchased earlier in the day at the Food Lion on College Plaza in Jacksonville where she stopped to buy dinner for an aunt. The first ticket, one from the lottery’s $500 Mayhem game, was the big winner.

“I took my glasses off to make sure I was seeing things right,” said Person, a child care worker. Then, after she woke up her daughter to double-check the prize she was seeing, the celebration began. “We were jumping up and down,” Person said.

After the required tax withholding was made, Person received a check for $103,876. Person said she planned to pay off the loan on her 2014 Ford Fusion, pay off some other bills and take a vacation. “I don’t know where, but I am going to need one after this,” she said.

Two top prizes of $150,000 remain to be claimed in the game.

Ticket sales made it possible for the lottery to raise more than half a billion for the state last year. For details on how $55.4 million in lottery funds have made a difference in Onslow County, click on the “Where the Money Goes” tab on the lottery’s website.