For Ronald and Kathy Adams of Hope Mills, a $1 million lottery win means a new car and a hunting trip.

“I thought I wanted a Jeep,” Kathy said. “But now that we won this, I want to get a bigger SUV to take my mom to the mountains to see her sister.”

Kathy’s husband, Ronald, plans to use the money to go deer hunting in Canada or Colorado.

The couple’s good luck happened on Saturday when Ronald, an electrical contractor, bought a $4,000,000 Platinum Payout scratch-off ticket for himself, and another scratch-off ticket for his wife.

“She won $200 on her ticket,” Ronald said. “When I scratched mine, I told her, ‘You’re not going to believe this.’”

“I looked at him and he was pale,” Kathy said. “Then he turned the ticket around.”

“She went crazy,” Ronald said. “I had to tell her, ‘Calm down, we’re in public.’”

Ronald and his wife claimed the prize Tuesday at lottery headquarters in Raleigh. They had the choice of taking a $1 million annuity that has 20 payments of $50,000 a year or a lump sum of $600,000. They chose the lump sum and after federal and state tax withholdings received $415,506.

Ronald bought the $20 ticket at the Short Stop on South Main Street in Hope Mills.

$4,000,000 Platinum Payout launched in September with three prizes of $4 million and five prizes of $1 million. All $4 million prizes and three $1 million prizes remain.

Ticket sales from games like $4,000,000 Platinum Payout made it possible for the lottery to raise more than $634 million dollars for the state last year. For details on how lottery funds have made a difference in Cumberland County, click on the “For Education” section of the lottery’s website.