"I feel like the luckiest guy in the universe," Jalen McLean said.
McLean gave his sister some money Tuesday and asked her to pick out a scratch-off ticket for him. She chose a $10 Jumbo Bucks ticket from the Valero on South McPherson Church Road in Fayetteville.
When McLean finished scratching the ticket, he couldn't help but smile.
"He had a huge smile on his face," his sister Dasha Silas said. "Like so big. it looked like the movie character Venom."
"How many 18-year-olds win something like this?" McLean said.
McLean decided to accept his winnings as an annuity of $50,000 payments every year for 20 years, instead of taking a lump sum of $600,000.
He received his first check Wednesday. He took home $35,753 after taxes.
McLean said he plans to buy an Audi with his winnings.