SC woman was dazed after winning grand prize on lottery ticket she bought at Walmart
A Palmetto State woman was rewarded for making a spur of the moment decision to buy a scratch-off lottery game, according to South Carolina Education Lottery officials.
The woman was lucky, as her $10 investment turned into a $300,000 jackpot, officials said Thursday in a news release.
She told officials that unexpectedly winning the $300,000 Gold Rush game’s grand prize left her feeling woozy.
“It was like you want to collapse,” she said in the release. “You walk around in a daze. You just can’t believe it.”
The six-figure winning scratch-off game was purchased at the Walmart Fuel Kiosk on South Main Street in Darlington, officials said. That’s about 3 miles from Darlington Raceway.
The winner will be allowed to retain some privacy, as South Carolina is one of 11 states — along with Arizona, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, New Jersey, North Dakota, Ohio, Texas and Virginia — that allow lottery winners to remain anonymous.
The winner said some of her newfound windfall will be spent on traveling this year, officials said. She also plans on investing her payday into more lottery tickets as she seeks more prize winners, according to the release.
The odds of winning this six-figure prize in the scratch-off game were 1-in-700,000, officials said.
This was the last of the $300,000 Gold Rush game’s six top prizes to be claimed, according to the release.
The Walmart Fuel Kiosk in Darlington received a commission of $3,000 for selling the claimed ticket, officials said.
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This story was originally published January 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM with the headline "SC woman was dazed after winning grand prize on lottery ticket she bought at Walmart."
