Luck has led one Chickamauga man to a big lottery win.

James Reece, 63, played the Georgia Lottery instant game Big Bucks and won a $100,000 top prize.

“I really went numb,” the grandfather of four said. “I told the store clerk. They liked that fact that I’d won, too.”

Reece works as a contractor for an electric utility company. He and his wife Sherry have three adult children. The couple plan to take a vacation and will save the remainder of the winnings.

Smoke Shop & Beverage in Chickamauga sold the winning ticket.

Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $9.5 billion to the state of Georgia for education. All Georgia Lottery profits go to pay for specific educational programs including Georgia’s HOPE Scholarship Program and Georgia’s Prekindergarten Program.

More than 1 million students have received HOPE, and more than 850,000 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.

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