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UPI
2 days ago
- General
- UPI
North Carolina woman predicts $200,000 lottery win
A North Carolina woman told her husband lottery luck was in their future just before they scored a $200,000 lottery prize. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo June 20 (UPI) -- A North Carolina woman predicted a lottery jackpot was in her future just before winning $200,000 from a scratch-off ticket. Hubert resident Sylvia Wells told North Carolina Education Lottery officials she voiced her prediction to her husband just before they bought a pair of scratch-off tickets from the Handy Mart on Western Boulevard in Jacksonville. "We bought his favorite ticket and my favorite ticket," she said. Her husband's selection, a Diamond 10X ticket, turned out to be a $200,000 winner. "I was like, 'I told you we were going to do it,'" Wells recalled saying. "We did it." Wells said the winnings will go toward buying some land.
Miami Herald
3 days ago
- Business
- Miami Herald
Wife predicts lottery win — then lands $200K-winning ticket in NC. ‘I told you'
A North Carolina woman may be questioning her psychic abilities after her lottery prediction came true. Sylvia Wells, of Hubert, told her husband she believed she would win the lottery, according to a June 19 news release from the N.C. Education Lottery. The couple traveled to a Handy Mart in Jacksonville on June 17 to test their luck, officials said. 'We bought his favorite ticket and my favorite ticket,' Wells told officials. The two left the store, then scratched off their $5 Diamond 10X tickets — and her husband's ticket won $200,000. 'We just kept looking at each other,' Wells said. 'It was overwhelming.' Wells' husband's ticket hit one of four top prizes, lottery officials said. After taxes, they will take home $143,501. The woman told officials she plans to use the money to buy land. 'I was like, 'I told you we were going to do it,' Wells said she told her husband. 'We did it.' One top prize remains in the Diamond 10X game, lottery officials said. The couple lives in Hubert, about a 65-mile drive northeast from Wilmington in southeastern North Carolina.
