Lottery player checks his ticket — and the zeroes just keep coming. ‘Wow, look at me’
A lottery player checked his ticket — and the zeroes just kept coming.
“I saw three zeroes and then more zeroes,” the man told the South Carolina Education Lottery. “I was like, wow, look at me.”
The man learned his ticket was worth $200,000 after he went grocery shopping in Summerville, a roughly 25-mile drive northwest of Charleston. He said he was still at the Harris Teeter supermarket on Dorchester Road when he bought a ticket for the Emerald Green game.
The man was home when he scratched off the $5 ticket, starting with the numbers. Then he glanced at the prize amount and was left in disbelief, lottery officials wrote in a March 7 news release.
“I felt a little lucky that day, but I never would have thought I’d won that much,” said the winner, who beat 1-in-960,000 odds to score his prize.
The man kept $139,000 after taxes but hasn’t yet decided how he will spend the money, lottery spokesperson Holli Armstrong told McClatchy News in a March 7 email.
The winner, who wasn’t identified in the news release, joins others who had hunches that were spot-on. For example, another South Carolina lottery player said she had a “lucky feeling” and hit the jackpot, McClatchy News reported in October.
This story was originally published March 7, 2024 at 3:22 PM with the headline "Lottery player checks his ticket — and the zeroes just keep coming. ‘Wow, look at me’."
