Lottery player buys NC ticket while out for biscuits – the prize left her ‘shaking’
On a routine Saturday morning trip for biscuits, Amelia Estes decided to take a chance on a North Carolina lottery ticket.
After making her regular stop at Biscuitville in Thomasville, Estes made another stop to buy a $20 scratch-off ticket.
The 51-year-old told North Carolina lottery officials that “something was just telling me to go get that ticket.”
The stop paid off, and Estes won the first $2 million prize for the new 100X The Cash game.
“I looked and looked and my hands just started shaking,” she said. “It was surreal.”
Estes told lottery officials she went home to tell her mom the good news, going into her house quietly and telling her mom, “I think we’re millionaires.”
“She was already sitting down, thank goodness,” Estes said.
Estes says she plans to use the money for a “comfortable retirement.”
This is not the first time a biscuit run has led to jackpot wins.
A Tennessee mother won $1 million on her way to work after stopping for a breakfast biscuit, McClatchy News reported in August.
And in December, another North Carolina woman made a biscuit and lottery ticket purchase that won big. She took home a $700,000 prize, as reported by McClatchy News.
This story was originally published January 19, 2023 at 6:58 PM with the headline "Lottery player buys NC ticket while out for biscuits – the prize left her ‘shaking’."
