A winning Powerball ticket was sold to someone on vacation in South Carolina
Go on vacation at a beach town in South Carolina. Check.
Buy lottery tickets, including several Powerball games for advanced, future draws. Check.
Watch the results of drawings into the next month. Check.
Triumphantly return to the Palmetto State in July to cash in a six-figure winning Powerball ticket and collect the prize. Check.
One man recently completed this unlikely checklist, narrowly missing out winning Powerball’s multi-million dollar grand prize, according to South Carolina Education Lottery officials. Still, what better way to commemorate a vacation then collecting a $150,000 Powerball jackpot as a consolation prize?
“It was fantastic,” the winner told officials. “It was like icing on the cake.”
The winner was vacationing at the beach in May, when he stopped on his way home to get gas at the Speedway on North Main Street in Summerville, officials said in a news release. He also bought a Powerball ticket for several future drawings, according to the release.
In July the man traveled back to South Carolina, to the claims center in Columbia, to cash in the ticket that came within one number of winning the Powerball grand prize on June 21.
The winning numbers in the June 21 drawing were 3, 16, 32, 52, 62 and Powerball: 24.
Because he purchased the Power Play option for an additional dollar, his initial $50,000 prize was tripled when the Power Play number was revealed to be 3, officials said.
The odds of matching four white ball numbers and the red Powerball number were 1-in-913,129, according to the release.
The man didn’t reveal any plans for spending his newfound windfall.
The winner is 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.
For selling the claimed ticket, the Speedway in Summerville received a commission of $1,500, according to the release.
The jackpot for Monday’s Powerball drawing is $426 million, according to the game’s website.
Anyone looking to buy a ticket must make a purchase by 9:59 p.m. Monday for the 10:59 p.m. drawing. Tickets are $2, and could cost more with additional options.
The odds of winning Powerball’s grand prize are 1-in-293 million.
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This story was originally published August 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM with the headline "A winning Powerball ticket was sold to someone on vacation in South Carolina."
