Lexington homemaker's Millionaire 7's lucky streak ends with $1 million prize - myfox8.com
RALEIGH, N. C. — Patricia Everhart, a homemaker from Lexington, says that she’s had a lot of luck playing the lottery’s Millionaire 7’s scratch-off game. “I bought one of the Millionaire 7’s tickets a while back just because I thought it looked pretty,” Everhart said. The lucky streak started on Thursday morning when Everhart bought three Millionaire 7’s tickets at Carlton’s Hampton Road Grocery on Hampton Road in Clemmons. “I went to get my nails done and I started scratching the tickets,” Everhart said. Everhart returned to the store and used $40 of her initial winnings to purchase four more of the $10 tickets. “This time I waited until I got home to scratch off the tickets,” Everhart said. Everhart is the seventh player to win the $1 million top prize in the game. She said she plans to use her winnings to build a new home, buy a new Ford F150 truck and invest the rest. A $1 million prize in the game can be claimed in 20 annuity payments of $50,000 or a one-time payment of $600,000. Everhart chose the annuity and received her first check, worth $34,628, after required state and federal withholdings. “I always thought that I’d eventually win big and now I have,” Everhart said. Everhart beat odds of 1 in 960,000 to win the game’s top prize. Source: myfox8.com
