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Wife’s Bathroom Break Earns Husband $200,000 Lottery Win

3/23/2022 9:40:09 AM

COLUMBIA, SC (March 23, 2022) – While his wife ran inside a Midlands convenience store to use the restroom, the husband decided to play the Lottery and won $200,000.

He waited until his wife got back in the car to scratch the ticket he paid $5 for at the Rainbow Gas Garden #15 at 100 N. Church St. in Swansea.

“We didn’t know what to think,” said the husband when he saw the six-figure payday. “It was a surprise.”

As for the couple’s plans, they are still deciding how to spend the windfall.

The win leaves one top prize remaining in the Carolina Riches game at odds of 1 in 750,000.

For selling the claimed ticket, Rainbow Gas Garden #15 in Swansea received a commission of $2,000.

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