Son’s suggestion that mom buy an SC lottery ticket leads to six-digit jackpot
A Midlands woman hit the jackpot after her son urged her to buy a lottery ticket.
The son’s gut feeling became a suggestion, and that turned into a $300,000 winning ticket for the family, South Carolina Education Lottery officials said in a news release.
But mother and son didn’t realize they were holding onto a six-figure prize until the day after she spent $10 and bought the Money Mania Extra Play ticket at the Pitt Stop on Longs Pond Road in Lexington, according to the release. The gas station/convenience store is at the intersection with Two Notch Road, near Exit 51 on Interstate 20.
After revealing the top prize on the scratch-off game, their house went from silence screaming, lottery officials said.
“We were speechless and then started yelling,” the woman said in the release. “It was an absolute godsend.”
The woman’s name has not been 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.
The woman didn’t specify how she plans to spend the windfall, but told lottery officials it will be shared with her son and family. There was no word if the son is an adult or child.
Lottery officials said the odds of winning the top prize in the Money Mania Extra Play game are one-in-1,000,000, and five of the six top prizes in the scratch-off remain unclaimed.
The convenience store received a commission of $3,000 for selling the claimed winning ticket, according to the release.
