COLUMBIA, SC (August 14, 2026) – A Midlands woman was buying a lottery ticket for someone else, when she decided to get one for herself and won $500,000.
“I was speechless,” she said.
She told lottery officials she was
getting a scratch-off for her dad at the Quick Corner #2 on Broad
St. in Sumter when she took a chance on a $10
lottery ticket.
“Wow!” was her reaction to scratching off a half-a-million-dollar prize.
She says her dad was just as surprised by the win and happy for her. Her choice to save the prize to help her family as needed made him proud.
“I won, but my family won too,” she said.
The odds of winning $500,000 in the Cash Money game are 1 in 1,560,000. Two more top prizes remain in the game.
Quick Corner #2 in Sumter received a commission of $5,000 for selling the claimed ticket.
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