‘We pinched ourselves.’ Husband pays off house after scoring big SC lottery win
A husband hit the jackpot — and couldn’t believe his luck.
“We pinched ourselves,” he and his wife told the South Carolina Education Lottery after winning $300,000. “We still can’t believe it.”
But once reality set in, the husband cashed in on the big prize and paid off his house, officials said May 6 in a news release.
The couple’s luck started when the man went to a Refuel store in Mount Pleasant, roughly 12 miles northeast of Charleston. While at the location on Ironclad Alley, officials said he bought a ticket for the Retro Riches game.
It turns out, his ticket beat 1-in-1 million odds to win the game’s biggest prize. He kept $207,000 after taxes, lottery spokesperson Holli Armstrong told McClatchy News in an email.
After depositing the extra cash, the couple decided to keep their windfall a secret.
“The bank knows,” said the winner, who wasn’t identified in a news release.
It’s not the first time an air of secrecy has surrounded a South Carolina lottery win.
“Don’t you say anything,” a clerk said when he looked at a customer’s scratch-off ticket that was worth $200,000, McClatchy News reported in March.
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This story was originally published May 9, 2022 at 7:18 AM with the headline "‘We pinched ourselves.’ Husband pays off house after scoring big SC lottery win."
