Lottery player wanted to win enough money to pay for his house. ‘And now I can’
A North Carolina lottery player scored a “life-changing” prize — and he already knows how he will spend it.
“I always said to myself I just want to win enough to pay my house off,” Matthew Wolfe, a Sophia resident, told the N.C. Education Lottery. “And now I can.”
Wolfe got richer after he entered his scratch-off ticket into the Multiply The Cash Second Chance drawing. He beat more than 51 million other entries to win the top prize of $400,000, lottery officials wrote in a news release.
“Needless to say, I didn’t get much sleep last night,” Wolfe told the lottery April 4, the day after the drawing. “It’s still hard for me to believe that it’s real.”
Wolfe, who enjoys trying his luck on second-chance drawings, discovered the big win when he read his email. He kept $286,000 after taxes.
“I never thought in a million years this would happen but look at me now,” Wolfe said. “This is life-changing.”
Sophia is in Randolph County and a roughly 20-mile drive south from Greensboro.
Though Wolfe knew what he would do with his windfall, other lottery players haven’t been so decisive. In South Carolina, a recent winner hadn’t decided how he wanted to spend his prize money, McClatchy News reported.
This story was originally published April 8, 2024 at 6:05 AM with the headline "Lottery player wanted to win enough money to pay for his house. ‘And now I can’."
