‘I’m still playing,’ man says after winning SC lottery game’s top prize
A Midlands man has dedicated decades of time and money to playing the Palmetto Cash 5 game, and his efforts finally paid off when he recently bought a grand prize-winning ticket, South Carolina Education Lottery officials said.
The man won a $292,000 jackpot on a ticket that he purchased at a Publix supermarket in Columbia, officials said Thursday in a news release.
“I’m glad I won it,” the man said in the release. “It was my time.”
The winner said over the year’s he’s bought Palmetto Cash 5 tickets from different stores all over the Midlands, but the six-figure winning lottery ticket was sold at the Publix grocery store at 10128 Two Notch Road. That’s in the North Pointe Shopping Center, which is in a part of Columbia densely packed with retail businesses and restaurants.
The winning numbers from the July 6 Palmetto Cash 5 drawing were 10, 13, 17, 24 and 27.
The Palmetto Cash 5 ticket matched all five numbers drawn to win the game’s top prize, officials said.
The winner will be allowed to retain some privacy, as South Carolina is one of 11 states — along with Arizona, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, New Jersey, North Dakota, Ohio, Texas and Virginia — that allow lottery winners to remain anonymous.
The man did reveal any plans for spending his newfound windfall, but told officials that winning the game’s grand prize won’t stop him from buying more Palmetto Cash 5 tickets in the future.
“I’m still playing,” he said.
The odds of winning $292,000 playing Palmetto Cash 5 are 850,668-to-1, according to the release.
The Publix store received a commission of $2,920 for selling the winning ticket, officials said.
The Palmetto Cash 5 jackpot for Thursday night’s drawing is $328,000.
It costs $2 to purchase a Palmetto Cash 5 ticket, and drawings are held on a daily basis at 6:59 p.m., officials said.
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