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•A man who found $20 on the ground used it to buy a $1 million winning lottery ticket
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Jerry Hicks of Banner Elk , North Carolina , used the $ 20 he found outside a convenience store to buy a $ 25 Extreme Cash scratch-off ticket.
The $1 million prize is the highest amount available to win in the Extreme Cash game.
Hicks opted to take a lump sum payment of $ 600,000 , rather than receive the prize as an annuity of $ 50,000 over 20 years .
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