$300K lottery prize claimed from ticket sold at Lady’s Island gas station. Here’s where
A $10 scratch-off lottery ticket left one customer of a Lady’s Island gas station with a $300,000 prize.
“I saw it, and I liked it,” the winner, who declined to be identified, told S.C. Education Lottery officials. He feels “all right” after the win, according to a lottery news release.
The Circle K gas station on Sea Island Parkway near Beaufort’s Woods Memorial Bridge sold the winning ticket, part of the lottery’s instant “MONEY” game. The store pocketed a $3,000 commission for selling the claimed ticket, the release said.
The odds of winning the $300,000 prize were 1 in 660,000, according to the lottery. Four top prizes remain.
Beaufort County ranked 15th in terms of the highest number of tickets sold worth more than $10,000, a 2018 analysis by The State newspaper in Columbia found.
Lottery proceeds have netted over $17 million for Beaufort County schools and nearly $89 million in local scholarships between 2002 and last fiscal year, according to S.C. Education Lottery data.
In October, a Beaufort woman claimed a $2 million lottery prize from a Mega Millions ticket she bought after casting an early ballot, The Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette reported.
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