Tahereh Gholinezhad of Woodstock, GA found herself the latest winner of a $250,000 20X The Cash top prize.
“We’re very excited, we can’t believe it,” she said as she claimed her prize Thursday at lottery headquarters in Raleigh. “We were shocked!”
Gholinezhad purchased her winning $5 ticket from the Circle K on U.S. 421 South in Broadway.
After required federal and state tax withholdings, Gholinezhad took home $176,876.
Ticket sales from scratch-offs like 20X The Cash 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.