Herbert Rivenbark of Charlotte took a second chance on a scratch-off ticket and won a $200,000 prize.
The news of the win came from by email. He learned that he’d won the grand prize in the Oct. 5 2022 Multiply the Cash second-chance drawing.
Rivenbark’s entry was 1 of 86,413,424 entries in the drawing.
He arrived at lottery headquarters on Tuesday to collect his prize, and after required state and federal tax withholdings, took home $142,020.
Players get a second chance with their Multiply the Cash tickets by scanning the tickets into their lottery accounts where they are automatically entered into the next drawing.
Winners of second-chance drawings get their first notification by email, followed by a phone call, and finally a certified letter. The deadline for entries into the fourth drawing is Jan. 31. The drawing is scheduled for Feb. 8.
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. For details on how $62.6 million raised by the lottery made a difference in Mecklenburg County in 2021, visit www.nclottery.com and click on the “Impact” section.
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