‘Is this right?’ Wife interrupts football game to show husband her big SC lottery win
A South Carolina woman interrupted a football game to show her husband she won a big lottery prize.
“Is this right?” the woman asked as she showed him the scratch-off ticket that was worth six figures.
The husband, who had been watching the game on TV, confirmed her $200,000 win was the real deal. Now, the couple plans to put their prize toward their retirement, the S.C. Education Lottery wrote in a Dec. 7 news release.
The wife was coming home from work when she stopped at a Shell gas station in Anderson. She spent $5 to play the holiday-themed Winter Green game and had trouble believing her luck, officials said.
“When I first looked at the ticket, I thought to myself, ‘This isn’t right?’” the woman told lottery officials. “I’m still in shock.”
The winner, who wasn’t named in the news release, beat 1-in-660,000 odds to score the jackpot prize. Officials didn’t say how much she kept after taxes.
It’s not the first time a lottery player’s trip home took a lucky turn. Another South Carolina woman bought a winning scratch-off ticket after work and planned to retire early, McClatchy News reported Dec. 6.
Anderson is roughly 30 miles southwest of Greenville.
