Three winning lottery tickets sold at same SC store. No winners have come forward yet
Three winning lottery tickets were bought at the same South Carolina store — but no one has claimed the prizes.
At least one lottery player is getting richer after stopping at Lowes Foods in Hanahan, roughly 15 miles northwest of Charleston, the S.C. Education Lottery said.
It turns out, three Palmetto Cash 5 game tickets sold at the grocery store matched enough numbers in Thursday’s drawing to be worth $300,000, officials said in a news release. Each ticket beat odds of more than 1 in 1.6 million to win big.
No one had claimed the prizes as of 1:24 p.m. Friday, S.C. Lottery spokesperson Holli Armstrong told McClatchy News in an email.
The winning numbers: 5-16-17-30-37, with Power-Up number 3.
Winners have up to six months to come forward, so “check your tickets,” officials said.
It’s not the first time a South Carolina store sold multiple winning tickets.
In August 2020, a Chesterfield County gas station was responsible for selling two that were worth $25,000 a year, McClatchy News reported.
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This story was originally published August 27, 2021 at 2:19 PM with the headline "Three winning lottery tickets sold at same SC store. No winners have come forward yet."
