RALEIGH – It’s a great feeling to get home from work. It’s even better when you find out you’ve won $200,000. Just ask Tiffany Hatch of Pink Hill.

Hatch, a manufacturing worker, stopped to buy a lottery ticket on her way to work Saturday at the Short Stop on Jackson Street in Beulaville. She asked the clerk which tickets were new, and decided to try her luck playing Carolina Black.

Hatch waited until after her shift to scratch it off. She was at home with her wife when they realized the ticket was worth $200,000.

“We were in awe,” Hatch recalled. “Like, this can’t be right.”

Hatch says her after-tax winnings of $138,501 will make a big difference.

“Fix up the house, pay off our debt – maybe get a car,” she said of her plans for the prize money. “It just feels like a huge weight has been lifted off our shoulders.

Carolina Black, a popular scratch-off ticket, returned to stores on May 3. Four more top prizes of $200,000 remain to be claimed.

Ticket sales for games like Carolina Black help the lottery raise on average $1.4 million a day for education. To see how lottery funds have made a different in Duplin County and every county in the state, visit the “For Education” page on the lottery’s website.