Tina Hansley of Currie said her family couldn’t believe it when she told them she just won a $4 million scratch-off prize.
“I called my children and my mom but none of them believed me,” she laughed.
Hansley bought her lucky $30 Black Titanium ticket from the Yaya Mini Mart on N.C. 210 in Currie.
“I asked the girl in the store to look at it to make sure I was looking at it right,” she recalled. “Then I tried to settle down. I was shocked.”
Hansley said she has played the Black Titanium tickets since the game started, hoping to win the $4 million prize.
“There’s always a chance,” she said. “You just never know so you try and see what happens.”
When Hansley arrived to collect her prize, she had a choice to make. She could choose to receive the prize as an annuity of $200,000 over 20 years or a lump sum of $2.4 million. She chose the lump sum of $2.4 million and, after required state and federal tax withholdings, took home $1,716,009.
The Black Titanium game debuted in June 2023 with six $4 million prizes and 16 $100,000 prizes. Two $4 million prizes and five $100,000 prizes remain to be claimed.
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