Store being sold out of lottery ticket leads woman to $250,000 jackpot
Published in Weird News
(UPI) A South Carolina woman said a store being sold out of her favorite lottery ticket turned out to be a lucky break when she picked a replacement and won $250,000.
The Boiling Springs woman told South Carolina Education Lottery officials she went to the S & J Mart in Boiling Springs to buy a scratch-off lottery ticket, but was disappointed to discover the store was sold out of the game.
The woman picked a 50X scratch-off ticket as a replacement, and won a $250,000 jackpot.
"I started sobbing," the winner recalled of discovering her prize. I sat staring at the ticket.
The woman said she was especially shocked when she read the back of the ticket and discovered she had beaten odds of 1 in 810,000.
"I'm that one," she said.
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