Just in time for the holidays. SC woman’s ‘dream’ is reality with lottery jackpot win
A Midlands woman says she’s going to spoil her grandchildren this Christmas, and now she has extra money to do it.
The woman won big on a scratch-off lottery game, revealing a $200,000-winning jackpot, South Carolina Education Lottery officials said in a news release.
“It was like a dream,” she said in the release.
The woman’s name was not released because South Carolina is one of eight states — along with Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, North Dakota, Ohio and Texas — that allow lottery winners to remain anonymous.
Other than planning to make it a merry Christmas for her family, the winner did not tell lottery officials how she will spend the money from the windfall.
The winning scratch-off ticket was bought for $5 at the Holly Hill IGA grocery store on Gardner Boulevard in Orangeburg County, lottery officials said.
The grocery store received a commission of $2,000 for selling the claimed winning ticket, according to the release.
Lottery officials said the odds of winning $200,000 in Bonus Star Bonanza were 1-in-720,000. One top prize remains in the game, with two having been claimed, according to lottery officials.
This story was originally published December 20, 2021 at 2:27 PM.
