Kimberly Raffe’s dream of winning the lottery came true Thursday when the High Point resident bought a $2 Fast Play ticket and won a $102,241 jackpot.
“This is like something that you dream of,” she said.
Raffe bought her $2 Bingo Bucks ticket on Thursday morning from the Sheetz on Westchester Drive in High Point. She then went home, sat down at her kitchen table, and checked her ticket.
“When I hit it, I was thinking, ‘Oh no this can’t be right,’” she said. “It still doesn’t feel real.”
She arrived at lottery headquarters Thursday to collect her prize and, after required state and federal tax withholdings, took home $72,847.
She said he will use her winnings to help her family, pay off her car, and put a down payment on a house.
The Fast Play rolling jackpot grows with every ticket purchased. When Raffe made her purchase, it had just reached $511,205. Because she bought a $2 ticket, she won 20 percent of the jackpot.
On Friday morning, the Fast Play jackpot was $436,000 and growing. The odds of winning a Fast Play jackpot are 1 in 320,000.
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