‘Running through the house screaming’: SC woman can’t contain herself over big jackpot
A woman’s craving for candy led to a big jackpot prize in South Carolina.
The woman had a sweet tooth when she picked up a lottery ticket worth $375,000, officials said.
“I was running through the house screaming,” the winner told the S.C. Education Lottery in an April 7 news release.
The woman couldn’t contain her excitement after officials said she tried her luck at a convenience store in West Union, a town in Oconee County and roughly 45 miles southwest of Greenville. She spent $10 on a ticket for the Mighty Jumbo Bucks game and later scratched it off in her kitchen.
“When she saw the word ‘JUMBO’ with a prize of $75,000 underneath, she showed the ticket to her family,” the lottery said in its news release. “And they pointed out the directions said her prize was five times that amount. She quickly did the math.”
That’s when she discovering the ticket was really worth $375,000, meaning that she beat 1-in-960,000 odds to win the top prize. The woman — who didn’t want to be publicly identified — then claimed a prize that totaled $258,750 after taxes, according to the news release and lottery spokesperson Holli Armstrong.
“Now I can buy a lot of candy,” the winner jokingly told the S.C. Education Lottery.
It’s not the first time a big windfall followed a desire to load up on sugar.
Last year, officials said a South Carolina lottery player bought a winning ticket while getting a candy bar. And in North Carolina, a woman was on a soda run when she hit the jackpot, McClatchy News reported.
This story was originally published April 8, 2022 at 8:50 AM with the headline "‘Running through the house screaming’: SC woman can’t contain herself over big jackpot."
