Woman didn’t feel lucky but bought SC lottery ticket & won game’s grand prize
A woman told South Carolina Education Lottery officials that she wasn’t feeling especially lucky when she bought a scratch-off ticket. It turned out fortune was smiling on the Upstate woman, as she won the game’s $500,000 grand prize, officials said Thursday in a news release.
The six-figure winning scratch-off ticket was sold at the Mit Food Mart on West Georgia Road in Simpsonville, according to the release.
“It was the biggest, greatest surprise ever,” the woman said in the release about her $10 purchase turning into a half-a-million dollar jackpot.
She overcame 1,440,000-to-1 odds to win the Grand Stacks game’s grand prize, officials said.
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 woman did not reveal any plans for how she might spend her newfound windfall.
This was the last of the Grand Stacks game’s grand prizes to be claimed, and the scratch-off ticket is no longer available for purchase, according to the release.
The Simpsonville store received a commission of $5,000 for selling the claimed ticket.
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This story was originally published April 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM with the headline "Woman didn’t feel lucky but bought SC lottery ticket & won game’s grand prize."
