COLUMBIA, SC (January 17, 2024) – While waiting in line at a convenience store, a Summerville woman watched as the man in front of her bought some lottery tickets. When it was her turn, she told the clerk to give her $25 worth of the same $5 ticket he bought.
She headed home to watch a football game on television and at halftime scratched the lottery tickets from the Parkers on Linger Longer Dr. The last ticket she scratched was a $200,000 winner.
“I thought this can’t be real,” she told lottery officials. “I didn’t watch the rest of the game, because I kept going in the kitchen to look at the ticket.”
She turned the ticket in the next day and is saving the winnings for retirement.
“I hope the gentlemen in line in front of me won something good on his tickets too,” she said.
The odds of winning $200,000 in the $200,000 Gold Rush game are 1 in 660,000. This game is no longer available.
For selling the claimed ticket, Parkers #80 in Summerville received a commission of $2,000.
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