Lottery player didn’t receive tickets he was expecting. He still scored a jackpot win
A lottery player didn’t get the tickets he was expecting, but he still hit the jackpot in South Carolina.
The player was at a Charleston-area store when he asked a clerk for four different lottery tickets. But the worker was “in a hurry” and handed him two of the same ticket, meaning he only got three different tickets, S.C. Education Lottery spokesperson Holli Armstrong told McClatchy News in a Sept. 9 email.
Despite the mistake, one of the tickets he received was worth $300,000.
“They were busy in the store, and the clerk was flustered,” the prize winner told the S.C. Education Lottery in a Sept. 6 news release. “She pulled two tickets out of one slot, and turns out that was a lucky thing.”
That’s because he beat 1-in-960,000 odds to win the top prize in the Power 777 game. The lucky player spent $10 on his winning scratch-off ticket at a Circle K convenience store in Mount Pleasant.
After taxes, the man took home $208,500. He said his family will handle his winnings wisely.
“We are saving it,” he told lottery officials.
It’s not the first time a clerk made a mistake before a lottery player scored a big windfall. In Virginia, a man won a six-figure prize after a store worker printed the wrong ticket, McClatchy News reported in 2023.
This story was originally published September 9, 2024 at 7:01 AM with the headline "Lottery player didn’t receive tickets he was expecting. He still scored a jackpot win."
