Man buys three winning SC lottery tickets in a row, wins hundreds of thousands
On the first lottery ticket he won $15. So he bought two more tickets: the second was a $50 winner and the third hit the jackpot with $250,000.
South Carolina Education Lottery officials said the unnamed Florence man stopped in Lamar for a snack when he hit the lucky streak.
Once he hit the jackpot on the $10 Gold Rush scratch-off game, he called it a day and did not buy more tickets, lotto officials said.
“I feel great,” he said, according to a news release from the lottery. “It took the stress off.”
The odds of winning the jackpot on the Gold Rush game are 1 in 780,000.
Lamar’s Diya Food Mart, which sold the winning tickets, will get a $2,400 commission on the jackpot, according to the lottery.
This story was originally published February 6, 2020 at 2:50 PM with the headline "Man buys three winning SC lottery tickets in a row, wins hundreds of thousands."
