‘Good feeling’ drove man to play same numbers on 162 SC lottery tickets. All won

It’s common for lottery aficionados to have lucky numbers, but one South Carolina went to extremes when he purchased 162 tickets with the same four digits.

The cost was $339, but the gamble paid off big, according to the South Carolina Education Lottery.

He won $811,000 in the Pick 4 midday drawing on Aug. 7, which counts as the largest single Pick 4 prize in state history, lottery officials said in an Aug. 22 news release.

The lucky player’s name was not released, but the state did reveal the numbers: 1, 7, 3, 1.

“He told staff at the Towne Centre Market on N. Hwy. 17 in Mount Pleasant that he had a good feeling about the numbers 1-7-3-1. So he played those numbers across 162 tickets,” lottery officials said. “Most all of the tickets were played straight at odds of 1 in 10,000.”

But wait, the story gets even stranger.

“Another customer at the Towne Centre Market overheard the man’s hunch, so he played the numbers too and won $25,400,” officials said.

Lottery officials didn’t say how many tickets that customer bought.

Pick 4 is a drawing with tickets ranging from 50 cents to $1. Players have the option of trying to match their four numbers in exact order, or in any order, the game says

Mount Pleasant a 5-mile drive east from downtown Charleston, across the Cooper River.

This story was originally published August 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM with the headline "‘Good feeling’ drove man to play same numbers on 162 SC lottery tickets. All won."