Colleen Sweet won the seven-figure payout in the lottery’s “$2,000,000 50X Cashword” ticket, a $10 scratch-off game. A million-dollar and a $2.5 million grand prize ticket remain in circulation.
Sweet chose to take the lump sum payment of $650,000 (before taxes) rather than the annuity, which would have paid the full amount over 20 years in annual payments.
She said she plans to buy a home and invest the cash…