COLUMBIA, SC (September 5, 2024) – Talk about lucky. Almost two years after winning $1 million playing the South Carolina Education Lottery, a Midlands woman has won another $300,000.
She called the $1 million win the “biggest surprise of my life,” but says the second win was even more unexpected.
It happened exactly like it did the first time.
On her way to work, she stopped for a $10 ticket at the King Fuel on Two Notch Rd. in Columbia. Sitting at her desk, she scratched off the top prize win and slipped the ticket into her purse.
“I started dancing around my office,” she said. “It was a thrill.”
But this time she didn’t take her lunch break early to go cash in the ticket. Instead, she waited until the next morning, so she could show the ticket to the clerk that sold it to her.
The winner isn’t telling anyone else. Not even her coworkers know about the two wins.
“I’m going for three,” she joked.
The Midlands player overcame odds of 1 in 700,000 to win $300,000
in the $300,000 Gold Rush game. Two
more top prizes remain in the game.
Krishnaprapti LLC (King Fuel)
in Columbia received a commission of $3,000 for selling the claimed
ticket.
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