Thousands win lottery just before Christmas after playing the same numbers in SC
Thousands of people scored South Carolina lottery prizes, just in time for Christmas.
More than 11,000 people had winning tickets after they all played the lucky combination of 3-3-3, the S.C. Education Lottery said Monday in a news release. Those were the same numbers picked in Saturday’s drawing for the Pick 3 game.
“The triple number combination is hands down the Lottery’s most played sequence, with this drawing producing 25 times the number of winners compared to the previous day’s draw,” the lottery said in the release.
Officials say each winning ticket is worth $250 or $500, depending on its price. That means the S.C. Education Lottery is doling out $2.8 million.
Each lucky ticket beat 1-in-1,000 odds, and officials urge players to “sign the back of their ticket first to safeguard their prize.” Winners have about six months to come forward.
While it’s the 13th time 3-3-3 was a winning combination in South Carolina, multiple people have gotten windfalls from other number combinations.
In September 2019, people lined the sidewalk near the lottery claim center in Columbia after a record number of players chose 2-2-2-2 in the Pick 4 game.
And this summer, more than 2,500 North Carolina tickets won prizes with the number combination 9-9-9-9, McClatchy News reported.
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