North Carolina man scooped £80,000 from NC lottery scratch-off game

A lucky man from North Carolina won a whopping sum of £80,000 playing Instant ticket game of North Carolina Education Lottery. 

The winning ticket was sold at the Food Lion on Mt Holly-Huntersville Road in Charlotte. The store will receive a bonus of £800 for selling the winning Scratch-Off. 

The pensioner added: “I was ready to leave the store but something just stopped me and told me to buy a ticket."

The winner recently claimed his winning amount from the lottery headquarters and took home £58,675 after taxes.

The North Carolina Education Lottery (NCEL) is run by the government of North Carolina. 

100% of North Carolina Lottery net proceeds go directly to benefit the state's education, with the current figure sitting at more than $9 billion since its inception in 2007.