COLUMBIA, SC (September 25, 2025) – A Darlington lottery player says a mistake helped her win a $303,000 Palmetto Cash 5 jackpot.
She ran in the Piggly Wiggly on Pearl St. to get a Palmetto Cash 5 ticket, but the clerk handed her the wrong game. She accepted it, but realizing the error, the clerk asked if she still wanted a Palmetto Cash 5 ticket.
“I said, ‘Yes,’” the winner told lottery officials.
But instead of playing her own Palmetto Cash 5 numbers, like she always does, she did something different.
“I got a quick pick,” she said.
And that quick pick surprised her by matching all five numbers drawn on September 4.
“If the clerk hadn’t made a mistake, I wouldn’t have won,” she said.
As for her plans for the winnings, she’s going to fix up her house.
For selling the claimed ticket, Piggly Wiggly #170 in Darlington received a commission of $3,030.
The odds of winning a Palmetto Cash 5 jackpot are 1 in 850,668.
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