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If you bought a Powerball ticket in Indian Land, you’d better check it. One hit big.

Indian Land, check your tickets. One may be worth $50,000.

South Carolina Education Lottery officials announced a winning Powerball ticket sold in Indian Land hit for $50,000 in Wednesday’s drawing. Someone bought the ticket at the QuikTrip on Charlotte Highway.

The Jan. 22 winning numbers were 11, 33, 44, 59 and 67. The Powerball number was 8.

According to the lottery, almost 17,000 players in South Carolina hold tickets good for prizes from $4 to $1 million. Players have 180 days from the drawing to claim prizes.

The winner from Indian Land matched four of five numbers, plus the Powerball number. The odds of matching that combination are one in 913,129.

Several big wins in the tri-county area in recent months include a $300,000 ticket in Rock Hill and three tickets from Lancaster and Rock Hill good for $250,000 each. Last year a South Carolina Powerball ticket from Simpsonville won the biggest single-winner prize in the game’s history, at $1.5 billion.

For more, visit sceducationlottery.com.

John Marks
The Herald
John Marks graduated from Furman University in 2004 and joined the Herald in 2005. He covers community growth, municipalities, transportation and education mainly in York County and Lancaster County. The Fort Mill native earned dozens of South Carolina Press Association awards and multiple McClatchy President’s Awards for news coverage in Fort Mill and Lake Wylie. Support my work with a digital subscription
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