Sharon Bobbitt of Enfield took a chance on a $5 scratch-off ticket and won a $400,000 prize.
Bobbitt bought her lucky $35,000,000 Blowout ticket from the Halifax Supermarket & Grill on U.S. 301 South in Halifax. She arrived at lottery headquarters Tuesday to collect her prize and, after required state and federal tax withholdings, took home $284,041.
The $35,000,000 Blowout game started in January with four top prizes of $400,000. One top prize remains to be claimed.
Ticket sales from scratch-off games make it possible for the lottery to raise more than $2.5 million a day on average for education. Using money raised by the lottery, the state provided $39 million in grants to help Halifax County Schools build a new school and $50 million for Weldon City Schools to build a new high school. For details on other ways Halifax County benefits from lottery funds, visit www.nclottery.com and click on the “Impact” section.