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- A Raleigh resident won $200,000 off a scratch-off lottery ticket on Christmas Eve.
- Edisson Garcia Vargas unwrapped the ticket during a game with his family.
- He plans to invest the $142,501 after taxes.
On Christmas Eve, Raleigh resident Edisson Garcia Vargas got a $5 lottery scratch-off ticket as a gift, and it wound up being worth $200,000, The Miami Herald reports.
Vargas and his family were playing a game, passing around a bowl of wrapped gifts, with each person choosing one to open— the classic party game known as "pass the parcel" in the UK.
When Vargas unwrapped a Harris Teeter scratch-off ticket, his girlfriend gave him a kiss for good luck.