A typical Saturday for Oscar Galdamez Rosales of Durham quickly became atypical after a $20 scratch-off won him a $100,000 prize.
“It was just a usual Saturday at first,” he said. “I had a haircut.”
After his trim, Rosales needed cash to pay his barber so he stopped at Lighthouse Food Mart on Holloway Street in Durham. He added a $20 Ruby Red 7’s scratch-off during his stop.
“Something just told me to buy that so I went for it,” Rosales recalled.
He then paid his barber and went to his truck to scratch his ticket.
“I was definitely feeling a lot of emotions,” he said recalling his winning moment.
Rosales arrived at lottery headquarters Monday to claim his prize and, after required state and federal tax withholdings, took home $71,756.
“This will help me complete some goals that I have,” he said. “It’s definitely going to help.”
The Ruby Red 7's game debuted in August with three $2 million top prizes and nine $100,000 prizes. Two $2 million prizes and five $100,000 prizes remain to be claimed.
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