Camilla Fisher of Denver saw her $5 scratch-off ticket win her a $250,000 top prize.
“We’re over the moon,” she said as she claimed her prize Monday at lottery headquarters in Raleigh. “We just couldn’t believe it.”
Fisher purchased her winning $250,000 Gold Rush ticket from the Speedway on N.C. 16 North in Denver.
After required federal and state tax withholdings, she took home $176,876.
Ticket sales from scratch-offs like $250,000 Gold Rush make it possible for the lottery to raise more than $725 million a year for education. For details on how lottery funds have helped all of North Carolina’s 100 counties, click on the “Impact” section of the lottery’s website.