Two SC residents are half a million dollars richer with lottery win

So, you bought a scratch-off ticket while shopping for groceries at the Lowes Foods on Chapin Road.

You drive home and, sitting in your driveway, you decide to see if you won anything.

You look at the scratched-off card. It says half a million dollars.

What?

You’re stunned. You sit in the driveway a while. Then unload your groceries.

That’s exactly what happened to a Chapin woman last week.

“I’ve been in denial,” the Chapin winner said when she handed in her winning ticket from the 200X scratcher at the South Carolina Lottery Commission headquarters. “I didn’t expect to win that much.”

Commission staffers said the woman’s hands were shaking when she gave them the ticket.

But wait. That’s not all the scratch-off news from the Lottery Commission.

Another South Carolina resident also won $500,000 in the same game.

This was a man from Sumter, who bought the ticket at Sumter Stop on South Guignard Drive in Sumter.

He told lottery officials, “I want to think about it and do the right thing. I had a great life before, and this money isn’t going to change that.”

Both winners elected to keep their identities secret, as allowed by lottery commission rules.

The odds of winning the top prize were 1 in 800,000.

200X is a special oversized ticket that sells for $10. Two more top prizes of $500,000 remain.

Lowes Foods #277 in Chapin and Sumter Stop in Sumter each received a commission of $5,000 for selling the claimed tickets.