Lottery winner shocked by ‘all the zeros’ after store clerks pick winning SC ticket
A lottery player checked his ticket — and was shocked to see “all the zeros.”
“I always hoped I’d win, but I never thought it would happen,” the lucky man told the South Carolina Education Lottery. “This is going to better me and my family for years to come.”
The man won $300,000 after receiving help at the Busy Corner convenience store in Lake City, a roughly 60-mile drive northwest from Myrtle Beach. His past tickets hadn’t been lucky, so he asked the store’s workers to chose his next one, lottery officials wrote in a May 16 news release.
The clerks picked a scratch-off for the Ultimate Bonus Payout game, and it paid off big time.
The man “took the $10 ticket home to scratch and was stunned when he saw the dollar sign followed by all the zeros.” He beat 1-in-700,000 odds to win the game’s top prize, officials said.
The South Carolina resident, who wasn’t identified in a news release, kept $208,500 after taxes, lottery spokesperson Holli Armstrong told McClatchy News in an email.
It’s not the first time a store clerk has helped a lottery player to hit the jackpot. A South Carolina supermarket worker once recommended a woman play a game that made her richer, McClatchy News reported in 2019.
This story was originally published May 16, 2024 at 1:15 PM with the headline "Lottery winner shocked by ‘all the zeros’ after store clerks pick winning SC ticket."
