A Rock Hill man won a $100,000 treat on Halloween.
Thomas Glenn bought a winning Winter Jackpot scratch-off lottery ticket at Quick C #106 in Rock Hill Saturday, according to a release issued by Stephanie Hemminghaus of the South Carolina Education Lottery.
“I bought the Winter Jackpot ticket because it was one of the newer games, and I liked the bonus play areas,” Glenn said in the release. “I scratched the ticket and just stared at the $100,000 prize. I asked the store clerk to scan it, and then I realized I was a big winner."
Glenn knows how the state's lottery helps with education since his wife is in school with the help of a lottery-funded scholarship, the release states.
Quick C #106 in Rock Hill receives a 1 percent selling bonus of $1,000. Every retailer that sells a claimed ticket of $10,000 or more earns a 1 percent commission, the release states.
Winter Jackpot is a $5 lottery scratch-off game that started Oct. 20. There are still five $100,000 prize Winter Jackpot tickets left, the lottery's web site says.
Since the Lottery’s inception in 2002, the General Assembly has appropriated more than $2.2 billion for educational purposes through fiscal year 2010.
Approximately 97 cents of every dollar spent by players on the South Carolina Education Lottery is returned to the state in the form of contributions to education, prizes, retailer commissions, and payment to contractors for goods and services.
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