Shopper followed her gut — and ‘ran out of the store’ with winning SC lottery ticket
A lottery player followed her gut — and it led her to a huge windfall in South Carolina.
“It was unexpected,” the winner told the S.C. Education Lottery. “I ran out of the store and went straight home.”
The surprise $500,000 win came after the woman stopped at the SM Mart in Georgetown, a roughly 40-mile drive southwest from Myrtle Beach. She was leaving the “convenience store when something told her to turn around and get two scratch-offs,” lottery officials wrote in an April 11 news release.
The woman’s intuition paid off big time. One of her tickets beat 1-in-960,000 odds to score the top prize in the 100X the Cash game.
“It’s changed my bank account, but it hasn’t changed me,” said the woman, who spent $10 on her lucky ticket.
The lottery player, who wasn’t identified in the news release, kept $347,500 after taxes, spokesperson Holli Armstrong told McClatchy News in an email.
It’s not the first time a lottery player felt drawn to buy a winning ticket. In North Carolina, a man’s “instinct” led him to a jackpot win, McClatchy News reported in October.
This story was originally published April 12, 2024 at 1:45 PM with the headline "Shopper followed her gut — and ‘ran out of the store’ with winning SC lottery ticket."
