A lucky school bus driver just won thousands after purchasing a $5 puzzle lottery ticket at a convenience store in North Carolina.

The winning Cashword Multiplier ticket — a puzzle game where the purchaser has to scratch off and find complete words — was sold to Paula Harris, the fortunate driver, at a Speedway location in the small town of Ayden, NC, with a prize of $150,000

After state and federal taxes and collecting her prize on January 27, Harris took home a total of $106,876 she plans to use for two specific things, a FOX5 news report states.

First, the school bus driver plans to pay off his mortgage, and second, he wants to use the rest of the money to help out his kids.

North Carolina has one of the youngest lottery systems in the United States as it was established in 2005, a powerball.us.org report says.

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