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Trena Nicholson said she always had a gut feeling she'd win big and told her six children as much

Still, the lottery prize still came as a shock to the whole family

Nicholson is the first top prize winner of the lottery's new game, Red Ruby 7's

A mother of six won a lottery game's very first jackpot.

Trena Nicholson, a resident of Hamlet, North Carolina, recently bought a scratch-off ticket from a local Speedway, according to the North Carolina Education Lottery .

A new scratch game, the Ruby Red 7's ticket recently debuted in the state earlier this month. The game has three $2 million top prizes and nine $100,000 prizes — and Nicholson couldn't believe her luck when she saw all those zeroes were hers.

"I was jumping up and down screaming," Nicholson said. "I had to l

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