Cary man wins nearly $100,000 on scratch-off bought in Morrisville

A $30 scratch-off picked up at the Wegmans on Davis Drive in Morrisville turned into a $72,018 payday for Cary resident Vijaya Sundararaj, but the advertised $100,000 prize lost $27,982 to required state and federal tax withholdings.

Sundararaj claimed the prize at North Carolina Education Lottery headquarters in Raleigh on Monday, May 4, after hitting it big on a 200X The Cash ticket. The prize started as a $100,000 win before taxes, putting the Morrisville grocery store in the middle of another lucky stop for Wake County lottery players.

The size of the check matters, but so does the math behind it. On a ticket that cost $30, the win was a huge return by any measure, yet the actual take-home amount was closer to three-quarters of the headline prize than the full amount promoted on the ticket. That gap is the reality behind many large lottery wins: the number that gets attention is not the number that lands in a player’s account.

The game itself launched in November 2025, with three $5 million top prizes and six $100,000 prizes. The lottery lists the overall odds for 200X The Cash at 1 in 3.01, which means players are still far more likely to win smaller amounts, or nothing at all, than to land one of the game’s top advertised payouts.

Wegmans on Davis Drive has developed its own local lottery lore. The same Morrisville store has also been the purchase site for other notable North Carolina Lottery wins, including a Creedmoor woman’s first $100,000 prize in a different $30 game and a Lucky for Life ticket that later produced a $1,000-a-day-for-life winner. For Wake County shoppers, that makes the store more than a grocery stop. It has become one of the Triangle’s better-known places where an ordinary errand can turn into an extraordinary result.