"I have a strategy when it comes to scratching," Hill said, according to WTVD-TV. "I start with the corners. When I got to the dollar symbol I knew I won something. I saw the 1 and then the 0 and it still didn't hit me. But then I saw the 'M'. My heart dropped down to my toes and I lost my breath."
Once he realized he won, Hill called his wife.
"I told her to pack her bags because we just won $10 million!" he said.
Hill opted to take the lump sum of $6 million, rather than the entire $10 million in 20 installments of $500,000 per year, reported WRAL-TV.
After state and federal taxes, Hill took home $4,159,101.
Hill said he plans on paying off some bills and putting money into his wife's instructional design business.
"This is life-changing," Hill said. "Wow! Just wow!"
