COLUMBIA, SC (September 28, 2021) – Grocery shoppers at two different Upstate Ingles stores have bagged big lotto wins.
The stores, only 20 minutes apart, each sold top prize winning Palmetto Cash 5 tickets in August. A ticket worth $300,000 was sold at the Ingles store on E. Main St. in Duncan for the August 20 drawing. At the Ingles on Hwy. 9 in Inman a shopper won $100,000 in the August 29 drawing and recently cashed in his winning ticket.
“It was unexpected,” the Inman store winner said.
He told lottery officials that he was pumping gas while his wife checking his ticket. She yelled out the car window that he got two numbers, then three numbers before telling him he had all five numbers match.
“I didn’t believe her,” he said. “I leaned in to the car and told her to ‘Give me the ticket.’”
His wife read out the results as he studied the numbers that were quick picked on his ticket. She was right, all five numbers matched to win him $100,000. And the husband plans to pay it forward with “a lot of giving,” he said.
Odds of winning a $100,000 playing Palmetto Cash 5 are 1 in 501,942. Odds of winning $300,000 playing Palmetto Cash 5 are 1 in 1,405,438.
Ingles Markets Inc. #200 in Inman received a commission of $1,000 and Ingles Markets Inc. #93 in Duncan received a commission of $3,000 for selling the claimed tickets.
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The stores, only 20 minutes apart, each sold top prize winning Palmetto Cash 5 tickets in August. A ticket worth $300,000 was sold at the Ingles store on E. Main St. in Duncan for the August 20 drawing. At the Ingles on Hwy. 9 in Inman a shopper won $100,000 in the August 29 drawing and recently cashed in his winning ticket.
“It was unexpected,” the Inman store winner said.
He told lottery officials that he was pumping gas while his wife checking his ticket. She yelled out the car window that he got two numbers, then three numbers before telling him he had all five numbers match.
“I didn’t believe her,” he said. “I leaned in to the car and told her to ‘Give me the ticket.’”
His wife read out the results as he studied the numbers that were quick picked on his ticket. She was right, all five numbers matched to win him $100,000. And the husband plans to pay it forward with “a lot of giving,” he said.
Odds of winning a $100,000 playing Palmetto Cash 5 are 1 in 501,942. Odds of winning $300,000 playing Palmetto Cash 5 are 1 in 1,405,438.
Ingles Markets Inc. #200 in Inman received a commission of $1,000 and Ingles Markets Inc. #93 in Duncan received a commission of $3,000 for selling the claimed tickets.
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