Days after two Rock Hill lottery tickets all but hit the $1B jackpot, it happened again
For the third time in five days, a Rock Hill lottery ticket just missed a near record jackpot.
According to the South Carolina Education Lottery, a ticket sold at the QuikTrip gas station on Celanese Road hit all but one white numbered ball in Wednesday’s Powerball drawing. The ticket won $50,000. Matching that final number would’ve won more than $1 billion.
The near miss on Wednesday’s drawing comes after two Rock Hill tickets missed by a single number on Saturday night. Five tickets across South Carolina have come one white ball away from the jackpot in the past two drawings. Three were sold in Rock Hill.
On Saturday, the Powerball drawing will hit $1.5 billion. It’s just off the all-time record high of $1.586 billion from January 2016. Sales ahead of the drawing could bring Saturday’s figure to a new record high.
Tickets are $2 at most grocery stores and gas stations. A winning Powerball jackpot ticket would have to overcome 1 in 293 million odds.
