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"I ran all my errands earlier that day, but I forgot to buy two bags of ice," Briggs said. "I ran down to the store to grab the ice and decided to buy a Lottery ticket while I was there."
Briggs said he rarely purchases New York Lottery scratch-off tickets, so the decision was a bit difficult.
"I had two 20s, a 5 and three singles on me. I can't justify paying $20 for a Lottery ticket and the dollar tickets really don't pay a lot so I went with the five dollar ticket," he said.
The $1 million scratch-off ticket didn't tell Briggs how much he had won, only that it was a "jackpot."
"I scratched the ticket and didn't really know what the word jackpot meant. I brought it back to the store and the guy behind the counter scanned it and told me it was worth a million dollars. Up until that point I had no idea I won that much!" he said.
Briggs chose the lump sum option, which will leave him with a total $536,058 after required withholdings.