Midlands woman gave away jackpot-winning lottery ticket. Did she get any prize money?
A Midlands woman gave away a lottery ticket that turned out to be a jackpot winner.
She “regifted” the scratch-off game without knowing it was a $30,000 prize, South Carolina Education Lottery officials said Tuesday in a news release.
Fortunately for the woman, the person she gave the winning Wonder Woman instant ticket to was her husband, according to the release.
He joked that he was keeping the winnings for himself, lottery officials said.
“I told her it was mine. But she knows I was just messing with her,” the man said in the release.
Hopefully she has a good sense of humor and knows her husband was only kidding.
They won the jackpot on a $2 scratch-off game bought at at the Murphy Express gas station and convenience Store on Sunset Boulevard/U.S. 378 in Lexington, according to the release. That’s in the West Columbia area, near the junction with Interstate 20 at Exit 61.
The couple’s names were not released because South Carolina is one of eight states — along with Delaware, Kansas, Georgia, Maryland, North Dakota, Ohio and Texas — that allow lottery winners to remain anonymous.
The couple did reveal they were both fans of the 1970s Wonder Woman television show starring Lynda Carter, that is the basis for the lottery game.
They did not say what plans they have for their windfall.
Lottery officials said the couple overcame 432,000-to-1 odds to win and claim one of the Wonder Woman game’s top prizes. One more of the game’s top prizes remains unclaimed, according to the release.
That Murphy Express location received a commission of $300 for selling the winning ticket, according to the release.
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