COLUMBIA, SC (September 19, 2025) – When a Spartanburg woman heard the Powerball® jackpot was $1 billion, she decided to buy a ticket. While the ticket didn’t make her a billionaire, it did win her $150,000.
“I don’t normally play,” she told South Carolina Education Lottery officials. But after work, she dropped by the Country Club Food Mart at 2445 Country Club Rd. and played a combination of family birth dates.
Following the drawing, her husband checked the ticket and had a question, “Are you playing a joke on me?”
No joke, her ticket came within one number of winning the $1 billion Powerball® jackpot on August 30.
“It’s an amount I feel lucky to have won,” the wife said.
The couple plans to invest the win.
Country Club Food Mart in Spartanburg was rewarded with a $1,500 commission for selling the ticket
The odds of matching four white ball numbers and the red Powerball® number playing Powerball® are 1 in 913,129.
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