COLUMBIA, SC (May 2, 2025) – A Midlands wife is no longer “fussing” at her husband for playing the Lottery after the couple won $200,000.
They won the windfall off a $5 ticket the husband bought home from the Sharpe Shoppe #1 on Blythewood Rd. in Blythewood. The wife says she took the ticket and kept it in her purse for several days before scratching it herself.
“It was great to win,” she admitted to South Carolina Education Lottery officials.
The couple is looking forward to taking a trip or two with the prize money.
And according to the wife, when the husband gets a ticket now, “he’ll buy us both one,” she said.
The odds of winning $200,000 in the Big Wins Extra Play! game are 1 in 780,000. Two more top prizes remain in the game.
For selling the claimed ticket, Sharpe Shoppe #1 in Blythewood received a commission of $2,000.
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