CLEVELAND — Winner! A northeast Ohio woman is taking home a big cash prize from a Maximum Million scratch-off ticket.
Mary Caudill of Lorain hit the top prize on the ticket, which is worth $2 million.
She chose to take the cash option of $1 million and will be bringing home $720,000 after mandatory state and federal taxes totaling 28%.
Caudill told Ohio Lottery that she plans on using the winnings to buy a house and her kids a car.
The winning ticket was purchased at the Exxon on Pearl Avenue in Lorain.
Maximum Millions is a $20 scratch-off, which still has the following prizes left in the game as of Aug. 15:
- $2 million prize ($80,000 annually for 25 years): 2 remaining
- $50,000 prize: 6 remaining
- $10,000 prize: 10 remaining
- $1,000 prize: 54 remaining
- $500 prize: 7,156 remaining
- $100 prize: 72,191 remaining
- $50 prize: 81,346 remaining
- $30 prize: 83,558 remaining
- $25 prize: 290,254 remaining
The Ohio Lottery says the overall odds of winning any prize in the Maximum Millions game are 1 in 3.39.
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