{"id":23498,"date":"2026-07-31T20:29:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=23498"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:29:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:29:31","slug":"n-c-mans-love-of-the-number-7-leads-to-1m-lottery-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=23498","title":{"rendered":"N.C. man&#8217;s love of the number 7 leads to $1M lottery win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">July 30 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A North Carolina man said his personal connection to the number 7 led to his winning a $1 million top prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Biscoe resident Tomas Munoz<a href=\"https:\/\/nclottery.com\/NewsBlogDetails\/2026\/7\/29\/Montgomery-County-man-uses-lucky-number-to-win-1-million-top-prize-\" target=\"_blank\"> told North Carolina Education <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/lottery\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Lottery\" class=\"tpstyle\">Lottery<\/a> officials he spotted the $10 Triple Red 777 Jackpot ticket at Candor V Mart on South Main Street in Candor and knew he had to buy it.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seven is my number,&#8221; Munoz said. &#8220;I was born on the 7th in &#8217;77.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Munoz scratched the ticket off immediately, revealing a $1 million top prize.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt emotions all over my body,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Munoz said the prize money will be used to make investments and to fund his passion for restoring classic cars.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 30 (UPI) &#8212; A North Carolina man said his personal connection to the number 7 led to his winning a $1 million top prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket. Biscoe resident Tomas Munoz told North Carolina Education Lottery officials he spotted the $10 Triple Red 777 Jackpot ticket at Candor V Mart on South&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdnph.upi.com\/sv\/ph\/og\/upi\/2141785432523\/2026\/1\/0143abb5301ae6fa4c0de7dedbeeb45a\/v1.5\/NC-mans-love-of-the-number-7-leads-to-1M-lottery-win.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-trending-viral-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}