SC woman received a $5 scratch-off ticket in her Christmas stocking and won big
.jpg "A woman in the Lowcountry won the top prize on a $5 scratch-off ticket that her husband placed in her Christmas stocking, according to S.C. lottery officials.")
A Lowcounty woman is hundreds of thousands of dollars richer after her husband stuffed a $5 scratch-off ticket inside her Christmas stocking, according to the South Carolina Education Lottery.
The woman, who played a Carolina Jackpot ticket, won the top prize of $200,000 from a ticket her husband purchased at a BP Gas Station in Summervile, lottery officials reported Friday.
“I was in shock,” the wife told South Carolina Education Lottery officials, according to a news release.
The odds of winning $200,000 in the Carolina Jackpot game are 1 in 520,000, the release said.
The couple — who remains unidentified — said they plan to pay off their house with the winnings.
For selling the claimed ticket, the BP Gas station received a $2,000, according to the release.
This story was originally published January 10, 2026 at 1:16 PM with the headline "SC woman received a $5 scratch-off ticket in her Christmas stocking and won big."
